Mina family

Mina was the surname of a wizarding family. It is unknown if they were pure-blood, or had both Muggle and magical heritage.

Known family members

 * M. Mina — a wizarding duellist
 * Ruth Mina — a Gryffindor student at Hogwarts in the 1990s

Etymology
The surname Mina has several different origins. As Portuguese surname, it derives from an ethnic name for a person who came from or had travelled to the place historically known in Portuguese as the Costa da Mina, a region of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa corresponding to modern-day Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. As a Spanish surname, it is a name for someone from a place called Mina or La Mina, from the Spanish mina, "mine." As a Greek surname, it is a variant form of Minas, which derives from the Greek personal name Menas, itself derived from the Ancient Egyptian name Mena (which belonged to the Pharaoh Mena).

The surname's multiple uses in the Harry Potter films are a tribute to graphic artist Miraphora Mina.