Minha
Feminine · “beautiful and great”
Minha is Korean — a two-syllable name in which each syllable is a chosen character, and the combination is put together fresh for each child.
How old is the name Minha?
Minha first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Minha is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Minha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Minha most popular?
Minha peaked in 2025, reaching #1769 nationally. Today it ranks #1769, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From 민하 to Minha
The story of Minha
Korean naming builds most given names from two Chinese characters selected by the family, often with a generation marker shared among siblings or cousins. Minha is a common modern combination. Korean emigration brought it to America, where it appears in the registers and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
beautiful and great
Korean given names are built from two hanja characters chosen for meaning and sound, so the reading depends on which are used. Min commonly means 'clever', 'gentle' or 'people'; ha can mean 'summer', 'great' or 'river'. The combination is chosen individually, and no single reading fits every bearer.
How the name formed
- 민하
- Minha
Related forms: 민하 · Min-ha · Minji
Pronouncing Minha
MIN-hah
Two syllables, evenly weighted. Korean gives both syllables a level tone English does not reproduce.
Nicknames for Minha
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
- 1997
- Most girls named
- 2025114 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1769reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +3.6%114 in 2025, from 110
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.
Minha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- 민하 in Korean — transliteration
- Min-ha in English — spelling variant
- Minji in Korean — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Texas, Illinois.
Minhas among us
people named Minha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,099 born in 2025 was named Minha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Celinda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Minha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Celinda climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Celinda's path sketches the road Minha is walking now.
Minha is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Minha is headed
Minha looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 26% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Minha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Minha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Korean two-character system means the meaning is chosen deliberately by each family.
- Min is available as a short form used across Korean naming.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- The meaning genuinely depends on which characters a family chose.
- The hyphenated Min-ha is the commoner romanisation.
- Mina and Minha are close enough to be confused.
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Feminine · #1769 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Minhas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Minha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Minha in 2025?
- Minha ranks #1769 among US girl names in 2025, with 114 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Minha?
- About 1 in every 14,099 US girls born in 2025 was named Minha — 114 in all.
- Will my child share the name Minha with classmates?
- Minha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Minha
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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