title: Minna (name)
text: # 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)
  