Minal is from the Sanskrit mīna (मीन — fish, gem) — also used in Urdu naming tradition. Minal Khan (born 1998) is a Pakistani actress and model — widely considered one of the most-celebrated young Pakistani actresses of the late 2010s and 2020s. Identical twin sister of fellow Pakistani actress Aiman Khan — the Khan Twins are one of the sister-celebrity pairs in modern Pakistani entertainment. Married Ahsan Mohsin Ikram (2021).
Minal 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Minal reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.