Minda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Minda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: mind (Jawi spelling ميندا).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 14K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ምንዳ in ET Ethiopia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
mind (Jawi spelling ميندا)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #959 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Minda | 59 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | ምንዳ | 12 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Minda | 23 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Minda | 72 |
| US United States | — | 1,979 | 1 in 168K | 1.9K | Minda | 260 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Minda | 12 |
| FI Finland | — | 113 | 1 in 49K | 177 | Minda | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Minda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Conocimiento
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Estonian, passive present indicative connegative of minema
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, sheep
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Minda Forsblomb. 2000SESwedish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 279 | #70,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Minda mean, and where does it come from?
- mind (Jawi spelling ميندا) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Minda a male or female name?
- Minda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Minda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Minda in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minda.
- How common is the name Minda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,979 people named Minda in 2020, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Minda compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Minda is the 959th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Minda?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mindaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Minda” — the 959th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.