Mintae as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mintae

What is the meaning of the name Mintae ?

The baby name Mintae is a Male name and is pronounced /min.tʰɛ/ (approx. 'MIN-teh').

Mintae is Korean in Origin.

Mintae is a modern romanized form of the Korean given name Min-tae (민태), built from two Sino-Korean syllables. The first, Min (민), can be written with various government-approved hanja such as 敏 "quick, clever," 旼 "gentle," or 珉 "jade-like stone." The second, Tae (태), commonly uses hanja like 太 or 泰 meaning "great, grand" or "peaceful." Depending on the chosen characters, Mintae conveys ideas like "clever greatness," "gentle grandeur," or "jade of great virtue."

Two-syllable Sino-Korean names like Min-tae became widespread in the 20th century and remain familiar in South Korea and the Korean diaspora, where the name is borne by athletes and entertainers. It is used predominantly for boys. Variant romanizations include Min-tae (Revised Romanization), Mint'ae (McCune–Reischauer), and the spacing forms Min Tae or Min-Tae; Hangul spelling is 민태. Cognate pairings with the same elements appear in names such as Tae-min.

⚙ Mintae is extremely rare. Our whole dataset turns up only 3 recorded uses, across 3 countries.