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Minka

#6,046 in 2025Girls' name

From Polish Minka; literal meaning unconfirmed

Minka has been given to 486 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #6,046 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Minka, 2025

1 in 166,000

Minka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Minka: meaning, origin, and history

From Polish Minka; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Minka means

Minka is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Minka is used in Finnish and Polish.

Minka comes through Polish Minka.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Minka is pronounced /ˈmiŋkɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 486 girls were recorded with the name Minka between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2012; its best national rank was #3,690 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,245 in 2020 to #6,046 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,680 in 2015 to #6,046 in 2025.

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 Minka?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,046
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Minka 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Minka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Minkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Minka was born before 2015 — so the typical Minka is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
486
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.0% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Minka 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
+2,735
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+199
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,366
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.5%
Peak was 2012 (43)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,690
2012

Spellings of Minka

Minka is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 51.7% against Minka's 0.02%.

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.

Where Minka is used

Across 1910–2025, Minka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 855,361 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Minka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Minka around the world

Where Minka 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
    2011–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    2019–2019
    #5,159
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1992–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Minka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,046
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 199
Best rank ever
#3,690
2012
Peak year
2012
43 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
486
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Minka

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

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Sibling names for Minka

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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