Minna (name)
# Minna (name)

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.

## Name days

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

## Given name

* 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 Sundberg (born 1990), Fenno-Swedish illustrator and cartoonist
* Minna Cauer (1841-1922), German educator, journalist and radical activist within the middle-class women's movement

## Surname

* Maria Minna (born 1948), Canadian politician

## Name variants

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