Minna (name)

MinnaGender| Female

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Language(s)| German
Name day| 7 April
Origin
Language(s)| Finnish
Derivation| Wilhelmina
Other names
Alternative spelling| Willa
Nickname(s)| Wilma
Related names| Hermina

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Minna is a female given name. In Germany, Minna is a nickname of Wilhelmina or Hermina. It is also a Finnish short form of Vilhelmina. The similar form of Wilma and Willa.

## Contents

* 1 Name days
* 2 Given name
* 3 Surname
* 4 Name variants
* 5 See also

## Name days[edit]

* Czech: 7 April (Hermina) or 7 January (Wilhelmina)
* Latvia: 14 October
* Finland, Estonia: 26 May

## Given name[edit]

* Minna Aaltonen (born 1966), Finnish actress
* Minna Atherton (born 2000), Australian backstroke swimmer
* Minna Canth (1844–1897), Finnish writer and social activist
* Minna Citron (1896–1991), American painter
* Minna Freimane (1853–1888), Latvian writer
* Minna Gale (1869–1944), American actress
* Minna Haapkylä (born 1973), Finnish actress
* Minna Herzlieb (1789-1865), German journalist
* Minna Planer (1809–1866), German actress
* Minna Salmela (born 1971), Finnish freestyle swimmer
* Minna Cauer (1841-1922), German educator, journalist and radical activist within the middle-class women's movement

## Surname[edit]

* Maria Minna (born 1948), Canadian politician

## Name variants[edit]

* Minna (German), (English), (Danish), (Latvian)
* Minka (Polish), (Bulgarian)
* Mína (Czech), (Slovak), (Bulgarian)
* Miina (Estonian), (Finnish)

## See also[edit]

* Mina (given name)
* Minnie (disambiguation)

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