Ⲙⲏⲛⲁ is my name written in Coptic. I know it looks like Greek, and historically it is a Greco-Egyptian or Greco-Coptic name. I write it Mina, and the pronunciation can’t be that complicated.

This is my real name, not a nickname or shortform. In Greek it could be written Menes but I’m not Greek.

Some people comment that it is a female name, and that may be so in other countries and languages that associate the ending A with female and O with masculine names.

The name is derived from an ancient Egyptian name meaning “of the god Min”.

However, I wasn’t named after the Ancient Egyptian Deity Min, but after the Great Coptic Saint Menas, The Wonderworker. You can read more about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menas_of_Egypt

Menas of Egypt 
(also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; Greek: Ἅγιος Μηνᾶς; Coptic: ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲫⲁⲓⲁⲧ; 285 – c. 309), a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers. Menas was a Coptic soldier in the Roman army martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith. The common date of his commemoration is November 11, which occurs 13 days later (November 24) on the Julian calendar.