Minas Family History
Minas Name Meaning
Greek: from the personal name Minas from classical Greek Mēnas. This was a popular name among early Christians and is celebrated in the Greek Orthodox Church as the name of seven martyrs and a patriarch. The story goes that Saint Menas was named by his mother for the word Amen which she heard on conceiving him; more prosaically it is derived from the pre-Christian Egyptian name Mena borne by the Pharaoh Mena (or Menes) who unified Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022