Entry № 6875 · Korean origin

Min Min — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Clever, gentle, jade"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "clever, gentle, jade".

Min in Korean and Chinese is written with various hanja/kanji characters.

Min is most often used in Korea as one syllable of a longer two-syllable name (Minji, Minseo, Minah), but it stands on its own in some Western adoptions. The pop group BTS's RM has popularised Korean names internationally.

Clever, gentle, jade — a Korean name.

The name in its native script.

敏 · 旼 · 民
Transliteration
Min
Pronunciation
/ miːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Min stands.

Min does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mins before her.

Real people
Min Hee-jin
Korean music executive and producer.
born 1979
In fiction

Names connected to Min.

The number behind Min.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Min reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.