The mineral names and their nomenclature play an important role in the development of mineralogy. At present, over 4000 minerals on the Earth have been found, how their names are given scientifically and systematically seems to be an important question. Therefore, the regulations and criterions for the mineral nomenclature receive more and more attentions. This review firstly introduces the brief history of mineral names and mineral nomenclature, and then summarizes the mutual characteristics that drawn out form the mineral names. Some problems about the present mineral nomenclature existed in English and Chinese mineral names, especially in terms of Chinese to English and English to Chinese translations, are discussed and the improving suggestions are also mentioned.