group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings88 Source spelling/reading rows89 Coverage levelExtended
Extended source depth
This reading group has a comparatively broad dictionary footprint across source-recorded spellings or records. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.
records contributing to this reading group
based only on the imported source footprint
Pronunciation & romanization
How to read Mina
The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.
Normalized to hiragana for comparison.
The same reading converted to katakana.
Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Mina. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
2 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Mina mean?
A Japanese name can be written in more than one way, and its meaning can change with the kanji used. Rather than assigning one English meaning to “Mina”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
ミィナ
This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.
Characters and loaded glosses
ミKana characterィKana characterナKana character
Kana-only spelling
ミナ
This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.
Characters and loaded glosses
ミKana characterナKana character
Kana-only spelling
みな
This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.
Characters and loaded glosses
みKana characterなKana character
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
み菜
This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.
Characters and loaded glosses
みKana character菜vegetable, side dish, greens
Kanji spelling
三七
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Kanji spelling
三奈
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
三尚
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
三菜
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
光夏
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
光奈
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
光那
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
南
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 89. The recorded-spellings section below retains the wider source set.
How to read these meanings
The English words shown here are dictionary meanings of individual kanji. They help explain what a spelling can suggest, but they are not a guaranteed translation of the full name and do not establish why a particular person was given that name.
Reading profile
How Mina is represented
These counts describe records in the imported name corpus. They are not a ranking of how popular a spelling is among people in Japan.
みな · ミィナ · ミナ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
JMnedict classification evidence
How this reading is classified in the source corpus
This separates dictionary classification from popularity. The same exact kana reading can be recorded as a given name, a surname, or both, and given-name records can carry male, female or unspecified source labels.
みな in the imported JMnedict corpus
88 source spelling/reading rows
2 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| みいなMīna | 4648 source rows | female 47 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 45 · unspecified 1 | 11 source row |
| みなMina | 8788 source rows | female 88source rows · distinct forms: female 87 | 22 source rows |
| みぃなMina | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 00 source rows |
| みなMina | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 00 source rows |
Classification boundary: male/female/unspecified are labels attached to imported JMnedict name records. They are not population shares, probabilities, identity claims, or evidence that a spelling is currently common in Japan. A source row can also be repeated across different written forms, so row counts and distinct-writing counts are shown separately.
JMnedict source text
Source-supplied text attached to Mina records
JMnedict can attach trans_det text to a name-classification block. This may be a Latin spelling, label or descriptor. It is shown only when it adds information beyond this site’s generated romanization.
| Written form | Source reading | JMnedict source text |
|---|---|---|
| ミィナ | みぃな | Miina |
Meaning boundary: this is text supplied by JMnedict for the associated name-classification block. It is not an inferred kanji meaning, a translation of the written characters as a whole, proof of a person’s preferred Latin spelling, or evidence of popularity.
88 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Mina
This section summarizes the exact source-recorded forms loaded for this reading group. Stroke and character-position statistics are descriptive corpus properties, not popularity or style scores.
4–26 strokes observed span
among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data
all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes
contains at least one character outside that loaded classification
| Reading | Romanization | Morae | Forms |
|---|---|---|---|
| みな | Mina | 2 | 88 |
| みぃな | Mina | 2 | 1 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
52 of 80 displayed written forms have more than one given-name reading somewhere in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.
distinct spellings displayed on this page
exact written forms with 2+ source readings
within this active given-name corpus
distinct kana readings for one displayed writing
未来
聖
水
南
海花
光夏
6 source-recorded readings
実成
6 source-recorded readings
美樹
6 source-recorded readings
A reading shown without a link is still source-recorded, but its destination group does not yet meet the reference-depth standard used for the main library. Limited records are not promoted merely to create extra internal links.
Kanji role reference
How recurring characters function across Mina spellings
Position counts are calculated only from the distinct written forms analyzed for this page. KANJIDIC2 nanori are character-level name-reading references; they are not used here to decompose or assert the reading of a specific multi-kanji name.
| Kanji | Character glosses | Forms | First | Final | Internal | Solo | Strokes | KANJIDIC2 nanori | Loaded class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 奈 | Nara, what? | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 美 | beauty, beautiful | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | はる, よし, よしみ, り | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 菜 | vegetable, side dish, greens | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 11 | よう | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 那 | what? | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | とも, やす | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 未 | un-, not yet, hitherto | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 海 | — | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10 |
| 南 | south | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | なみ, は, みな, みまみ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 水 | water | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | うず, ずみ, つ, ど +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 聖 | holy, saint, sage | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | きよ, さと, さとし, せ +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 魅 | fascination, charm, bewitch | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 三 | three | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | か, さ, さい, さえ +11 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 七 | seven | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | し, しっ, な, ひち | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.
Exact writing research map
Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context
These relationships are exact and source-backed. Whole-name readings shown in each card come from JMnedict within the current name class; exact-writing search can surface records from other name classes. Character links open KANJIDIC2-backed kanji pages. Sequence context means the same kanji string occurs contiguously in another recorded written form—it does not prove shared origin or meaning.
Exact written form
ミィナ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Minaみぃな · this page
Characters in order
ミKanaィKanaナKana
Exact written form
ミナ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Minaみな
Characters in order
ミKanaナKana
Exact written form
みな
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Minaみな · this page
Characters in order
みKanaなKana
Exact written form
み菜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Minaみな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
三七
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
SanshichiさんしちMinaみな · this page
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 三七 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
三奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
MitsunaみつなMinaみな · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 三奈 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
三尚
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Minaみな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
三菜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Minaみな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
光夏
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
光奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 89. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Mina spellings
Only characters appearing in at least two distinct analyzed spellings are shown here. Frequency describes this source-recorded spelling set, not real-world baby-name popularity.
奈Nara, what?21 of 89 analyzed forms美beauty, beautiful15 of 89 analyzed forms菜vegetable, side dish, greens13 of 89 analyzed forms那what?8 of 89 analyzed forms未un-, not yet, hitherto8 of 89 analyzed forms海Kanji record7 of 89 analyzed forms南south6 of 89 analyzed forms水water6 of 89 analyzed forms聖holy, saint, sage5 of 89 analyzed forms魅fascination, charm, bewitch5 of 89 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Mina
88 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading みな. Other source readings can appear in this romanized group when the imported records converge on the same index form. Use Compare to inspect exact spellings side by side.
ミィナ
ミィナ · Mina
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
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ミナ
ミナ · Mina
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
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みな
みな · Mina
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み菜
みな · Mina
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三七
みな · Mina
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三奈
みな · Mina
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三尚
みな · Mina
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三菜
みな · Mina
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光夏
みな · Mina
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光奈
みな · Mina
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光那
みな · Mina
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南
みな · Mina
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南凪
みな · Mina
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実奈
みな · Mina
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実成
みな · Mina
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実菜
みな · Mina
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実那
みな · Mina
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峰奈
みな · Mina
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己奈
みな · Mina
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巳奈
みな · Mina
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弥奈
みな · Mina
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弥菜
みな · Mina
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弥那
みな · Mina
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心奈
みな · Mina
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心那
みな · Mina
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望凪
みな · Mina
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望奈
みな · Mina
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望菜
みな · Mina
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未凪
みな · Mina
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未南
みな · Mina
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未奈
みな · Mina
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未成
みな · Mina
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未来
みな · Mina
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未納
みな · Mina
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未菜
みな · Mina
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未那
みな · Mina
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果菜
みな · Mina
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民河
みな · Mina
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水
みな · Mina
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水南
みな · Mina
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水奈
みな · Mina
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水無
みな · Mina
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水菜
みな · Mina
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水雫
みな · Mina
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海七
みな · Mina
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海南
みな · Mina
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海名
みな · Mina
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海夏
みな · Mina
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海渚
みな · Mina
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海花
みな · Mina
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海那
みな · Mina
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満菜
みな · Mina
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珠菜
みな · Mina
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瑞七
みな · Mina
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皆
みな · Mina
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瞳奈
みな · Mina
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緑奈
みな · Mina
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美七
みな · Mina
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美凪
みな · Mina
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美南
みな · Mina
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美名
みな · Mina
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美夏
みな · Mina
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美奈
みな · Mina
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美娜
みな · Mina
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美成
みな · Mina
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美捺
みな · Mina
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美樹
みな · Mina
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美波
みな · Mina
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美直
みな · Mina
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美苗
みな · Mina
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美菜
みな · Mina
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美那
みな · Mina
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聖
みな · Mina
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聖名
みな · Mina
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聖和
みな · Mina
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聖奈
みな · Mina
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聖菜
みな · Mina
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臣奈
みな · Mina
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茉奈
みな · Mina
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見名
みな · Mina
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Showing the first 80 spelling/reading records out of 89 loaded records for this reading group. The group contains 88 distinct written spellings.
Spelling comparator
Compare Mina forms side by side
Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.
| Spelling | One source reading | Character-level glosses | Total strokes | Loaded character class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ミィナ | ミィナ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| ミナ | ミナ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| みな | みな | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| み菜 | みな | 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 三七 | みな | 三 — three · 七 — seven | 5 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 三奈 | みな | 三 — three · 奈 — Nara, what? | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 三尚 | みな | 三 — three · 尚 — esteem, furthermore | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 三菜 | みな | 三 — three · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 光夏 | みな | 光 — ray, light · 夏 — summer | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 光奈 | みな | 光 — ray, light · 奈 — Nara, what? | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 光那 | みな | 光 — ray, light · 那 — what? | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 南 | みな | 南 — south | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 南凪 | みな | 南 — south · 凪 — lull, calm | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 実奈 | みな | 実 — reality, truth · 奈 — Nara, what? | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 実成 | みな | 実 — reality, truth · 成 — turn into, become | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 実菜 | みな | 実 — reality, truth · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.
What does Mina mean?
There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.
Related readings
More names beginning with みな
Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.
Given name · female · limited reference
Minami
147 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinako
106 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinae
39 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · mixed records · limited referenceMinato
36 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinamo
32 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinagi
21 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinao
20 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinaho
18 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinatsu
18 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinaka
14 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinaki
13 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMinari
12 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Mina
These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.
Given-name relationship
Minami
南奈未水海美聖菜那魅
10 shared kanji · 122 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMinako
南奈未水海美聖菜那魅
10 shared kanji · 76 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipManami
南奈未水海美聖菜那
9 shared kanji · 122 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKanami
南奈未水海美菜那魅
9 shared kanji · 105 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNaomi
南奈未水海美菜那魅
9 shared kanji · 102 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNanami
南奈未海美聖菜那魅
9 shared kanji · 96 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNami
南奈未水海美菜那魅
9 shared kanji · 71 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMinato
南奈未水海美菜那魅
9 shared kanji · 22 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNagomi
南奈未水海美菜那魅
9 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMika
南未水海美聖那魅
8 shared kanji · 91 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNatsumi
南奈未水海美菜那
8 shared kanji · 80 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNamiko
南奈未水海美菜那
8 shared kanji · 61 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Evidence on this page
What each source establishes
JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.
Source boundary
The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.
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