Minah
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Minah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Minah mean?
Arabic
A female given name from Arabic.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Minah a girl's or a boy's name?
Minah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Minah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 367% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Minah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Minah of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
In 2025, 115 girls in the UK were given Minah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #401, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Mina 107
- Minah 8
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Minah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
How popular is Minah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Minah, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2013, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Minah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 522 girls in the US were given Minah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #571, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Minah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,450 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
Names like Minah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Ayah Zainab Nusaybah Aaliyah Hafsa Hiba Sumayyah Ruqayyah Rahma Izzah Farah
Other spellings of Minah
Names related to Minah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Minah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/minah, updated 20 October 2026.