[1] It is not certain if the goddess Men ("crown") known from the Early Dynastic Zame Hymns, apparently worshiped in Uruk and Sippar, should be considered analogous to Ninmena.
[2] However, the deity dMen or dMen-na known from late copies of the Weidner god list is agreed to be a form of Ninmena.
[4] It is a matter of scholarly debate if by the Old Babylonian period these names were understood as belonging to different goddesses who came to be conflated with each other, or local variants of a single deity.
[5] The so-called Archive of Mystic Heptads labels Ninmena as the "Bēlet-ilī of the city of Utab" alongside other goddesses of birth and their cult centers.
[8] A hymn attributed to the Sealand Dynasty mentions Ninmena in association with Nippur as a caretaker of the "Lady-of-Nippur" (Nin-Nibru[9]) though a connection between her and this city is not present in any other known sources.