Portuguese: ethnic name for someone from or who had been to the
(Costa da) Mina in Africa.Spanish: habitational name from any of
the numerous places named Mina, La Mina, from Spanish and Portuguese
mina ‘mine’.Greek: variant of Minas.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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