as a Last Name
- 481
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Minas
Meaning & Origins
Greek: from the personal name Mēnas. This was a popular name among early Christians and is celebrated in the Greek Orthodox Church as the name of seven martyrs and a patriarch. The story goes that St. Menas was named by his mother for the word Amen, which she heard on conceiving him; more prosaically, it is derived from the pre-Christian Egyptian name Mena, borne by the Pharaoh Mena (or Menes) who unified Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 BC.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 481
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Idaho
- has the most people named Minas per capita
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