Mina has independent roots across at least four cultures: Persian (مینا, minā — lapis lazuli, blue glass, or enamel); Japanese (美奈 — beautiful + apple tree); Korean (미나 — beautiful + sprout); and German (a short form of Wilhelmina or Hermine). A top-1000 US baby name since 2018. Mina (TWICE, born Sharon Myoui, 1997) — Japanese-Korean member of the K-pop group TWICE, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015; TWICE became the first foreign female act to release a Japanese-language album that sold over 250,000 copies in its first week. Mina Harker — heroine of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) — modeled by Stoker on Florence Stoker, his wife. Mina Anwar — Pakistani-British actress (The Thin Blue Line). Mina Mazzini (born 1940) — Italian singer often called the Queen of Italian pop; over 150 million records sold. Mina Kawano — Olympic swimmer. "Mina" in Arabic (منى) means "wishes, desires."
Featured throughout 21st-century K-pop and 19th-century Gothic literature.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mina reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.