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Minas

Boys' name

Menas of Egypt, through Մինաս

Minas has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 2023, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Minas, 2024

1 in 669,000

Minas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Minas: meaning, origin, and history

Menas of Egypt, through Մինաս

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Minas means

Minas belongs to the name family reached through Minas → Մինաս. Its meaning is “Menas of Egypt”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Two main origins for the surname: * Borrowed from Greek Μηνάς (Minás), a patronymic surname. * Borrowed from Spanish Minas or Miñas. The given name is from Greek Μηνάς (Minás) and Armenian Մինաս (Minas).

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Origin, language, and formation

Minas is used in English.

Minas comes through Greek Μηνάς, Spanish Minas and Armenian Մինաս.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Մինաս.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 boys were recorded with the name Minas between 1973 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,892 in 1973.

How common is Minas?

Minas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Minas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Minas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Minass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Minas was born before 1995 — so the typical Minas is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
117
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Minas 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
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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 2023 (15)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,892
1973

Spellings of Minas

Minas is not the most common spelling — Miles is, with 30.6% against Minas's 0.03%.

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.

Minas around the world

Where Minas ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1981–2011
    #5,216
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Minas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,892
1973
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Minas

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

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Sibling names for Minas

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

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