Minha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Minha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Minha: Recorded since 2002, its highest recorded position is #261, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#261highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#2301
2004	#3725
2008	#4524
2009	#5556
2010	#2843
2011	#4049
2012	#3681
2013	#2062
2014	#2058
2015	#1783
2016	#1416
2017	#1371
2018	#1393
2019	#1292
2020	#792
2021	#544
2022	#395
2023	#389
2024	#261

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 23 years from 2002 to 2024.

In 2024: #261 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2002–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #2301 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2024
Highest recorded position: #261 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2002–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Minha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 691 births with the name.

Minha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Minha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2301 (2002)	#261 (2024)	#261 (2024)	19 of 23	691 (2002–2024)	184 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#364 (2023)	#718 (2025)	6 of 10	33 (2016–2025)	10 (2023)

Minha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Minha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	18	4 of 10	5
2010s	156	10 of 10	16
2020sbusiest	517	5 of 10	103

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 103 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 78, from 106 to 184.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Minha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #261 in England and Wales in 2024.

Minha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#261	184	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#389	106	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#395	107	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#544	74	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#792	46	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1292	25	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1371	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2002 and 2025, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #261, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 184 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Minh · #310, 52y
Minhaj · #1345, 19y
Minna · #1475, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Blanaid · #262, 19y
Kayce · #262, 18y
Coran · #263, 20y
Olivia-Rose · #263, 25y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Alaia · #262, 20y
Winter · #263, 21y
Aronas · #264, 19y
Bowie · #258, 21y

Minha was ranked #261 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Minha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Minha without appearing here.

Minha moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2062 and #5742.
Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #5556 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2843 and #5707.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2062 and #4739.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2062 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Minha

Aria Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2301 and #2540 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3725 and #1715.

Moved the opposite way to Minha

Abigail Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 while Aisling went from #513 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 while Alex went from #233 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Minha

Ada Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 and Alma from #2105 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 and Amelia from #25 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Minha went from #2301 to #261 and Aria from #2540 to #35.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #261 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Minha across 2 official records

Minha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Minha across 2 official records

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