Miina

Girls' name

Will + helmet, through Wilhelmina

Miina has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Miina, 2005

1 in 769,000

Miina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miina: meaning, origin, and history

Will + helmet, through Wilhelmina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miina means

Miina belongs to the name family reached through Miina → Wilhelmina → Wilhelm → *Wiljahelmaz. Its meaning is “will + helmet”.

Origin, language, and formation

Miina is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Miina comes through German Wilhelmina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vilhelmiina, Wilhelmina, Wilhelm and *Wiljahelmaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Miina is pronounced /ˈmiːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Miina between 2005 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2005; its best national rank was #18,281 in 2005.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Miina?

Miina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005: 1 in 769,000; 5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only: 1 in 369,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 532,928 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Miina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miina was born before 2005 — so the typical Miina is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Miina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (5)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #18,281; 2005

Spellings of Miina

Miina is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 17.6% against Miina's <0.01%.

Diana17.6%368,487
Mia14.8%310,219
Tina14.0%292,146
Gina7.3%153,057
Nina6.4%133,788
Mila4.0%84,489
Mona2.2%45,787
Alina2.2%45,387

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Miina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #18,281; 2005
Peak year: 2005; 5 that year
First recorded: 2005
Last recorded: 2005
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Miina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Miika Miila Haina Chaina Orina Egina Urina Maina Mhina Idina Aaina Riina Ktina Asina Azlina Twina Kaelina Damina Moina Prina Yuina Odina Aralina Irmina

Sibling names for Miina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

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