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mina Name Meaning and History

  1. Portuguese: ethnic name for someone from or who had been to the (Costa da) Mina in Africa.
  2. Spanish: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mina, La Mina, from Spanish and Portuguese mina ‘mine’.
  3. Greek: variant of Minas.
  4. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic mina?h ‘gifts’, ‘favors’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The mina name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the mina family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of mina Families in the US in 1920
Number of mina families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 48
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Mina Family in the Philippines Joseph Mina 27
Mina Debbie Marks 5
Lino Mina of PA. ~ Hung in 1832 BasketLady420 0
Egypt has mina alfie 7
Mina Svenson albertssonbarbro 0
Existence of mina/meena community in INDIA ghanshyammeena 0
Elisabeth Mina Otto Pafons 0
Steve Mina-Greece Connie Humphrey 0
Mina's of Australia Connie Humphrey 0
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