Given name & surname · also Native American
Minda
“having great knowledge”
Minda is used as a given name and a surname. One Native American and Hindi interpretation is “having great knowledge.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Native American and Hindi interpretation is “having great knowledge.”
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Native American and Hindi naming traditions.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Minda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,600
- 0 boys · 1,600 girls
- Most popular year
- 1951
- 38 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,979 as a first name in 2020; 302 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Minda’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Minda has a diminutive in MINMIN. Minda has a related form in Mindy. Minda has a related form in Menda.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Melindafull form
- Mindyvariant
- Mendavariant
- Minndalikely variant
- Minmindiminutive · ceb
- Mendahvariant
- Myndahvariant
- Myndavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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