Meaning and history
Minna is a name meaning “love” in Old German, specifically medieval courtly love, and it is also used as a short form of Wilhelmina. It is the name of the title character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play Minna von Barnhelm (1767).
20062006: 31 births, rank #4,576
2007: 20 births, rank #6,552
2008: 27 births, rank #5,279
2009: 30 births, rank #4,805
2010: 23 births, rank #5,771
20112011: 28 births, rank #4,915
2012: 32 births, rank #4,486
2013: 21 births, rank #6,017
2014: 25 births, rank #5,310
2015: 33 births, rank #4,295
20162016: 29 births, rank #4,734
2017: 37 births, rank #3,996
2018: 33 births, rank #4,237
2019: 40 births, rank #3,718
2020: 32 births, rank #4,263
20212021: 28 births, rank #4,719
2022: 35 births, rank #4,108
2023: 20 births, rank #5,960
2024: 28 births, rank #4,772
20252025: 29 births, rank #4,661
Minna rose from #976 to #937 for girls between 1915 and 1916. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 54.