Meena
Feminine · “fish”
Meena is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,580 girls against 12 boys since 1880.
Meena is two words in two unrelated languages: the Sanskrit for a fish, which names the zodiac sign Pisces, and the Persian for enamel — the blue glaze on Iranian tilework.
How old is the name Meena?
Meena first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Meena alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,600 people named Meena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Meena most popular?
Meena peaked in 2023, reaching #3047 nationally. Today it ranks #3712, 665 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mina to Meena
The story of Meena
The fish and the enamel arrived in Indian naming from different directions — one from Sanskrit and one from Persian, which supplied a large part of Urdu's vocabulary. Meena is used across India and Pakistan in both senses, and it is also a short form of Meenakshi, the fish-eyed goddess of Madurai. It reaches American records with families from across the subcontinent.
Meaningscholars disagree
fish, or enamel glaze
Sanskrit mina is a fish and names the zodiac sign Pisces; the fish-shaped eye is a fixed image of beauty in Indian poetry. Persian mina is the blue enamel used on metal and tile, and minakari is the craft. Both are used as names and they are unrelated.
How the name formed
- mina
- Meena
Related forms: Meena · Mina · Mina
Pronouncing Meena
MEE-nah
Two syllables, first stressed, with a long first vowel. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Meena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 200854 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3047reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +11.1%40 in 2025, from 36
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Meena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Meena in Hindi — same name
- Mina in Sanskrit — spelling variant
- Mina in Persian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Michigan.
Meenas among us
people named Meena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 40,182 born in 2025 was named Meena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Meena
- #3712
- Meena on the 2025 chart
- #892
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Meena went to 40 girls in 2025, but Mena and Menna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 68, which makes it the 892nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,820 places above the chart.
- Meena40
- Mena19
- Menna9
About 1 girl in 23,636 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 40,182 for Meena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Samyra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Meena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Samyra climbed just as high around 2007, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Samyra's path sketches the road Meena is walking now.
Meena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Meena is headed
Meena should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Meena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Meena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two settled meanings from unrelated languages, both concrete and attractive.
- Five letters and two syllables, readable at sight in most languages.
- Widely used across India and Pakistan, so it has a large community behind it.
- Mina and Meena are the same name and different families prefer different spellings.
- The fish reading needs the poetic context to land in English.
- It is close to Mila, Nina and Tina in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Meenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Meena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Meena?
- Meena is the most-used spelling in US records — 40 of the 68 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mena and Menna.
- How popular is the name Meena in 2025?
- Meena ranks #3712 among US girl names in 2025, with 40 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Meena?
- About 1 in every 40,182 US girls born in 2025 was named Meena — 40 in all.
- Will my child share the name Meena with classmates?
- Meena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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