Minnie
Minnie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 62 births. Its best rank was 5th, in 1880, 1882–1884, 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 620.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19163,274 births
- Best rank
- #5first in 1880
- Since 1880
- 159,224people given the name
The story in the numbers
159,224 girls have been named Minnie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 3,274 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 62 births in 2024, against 3,274 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 45 of them in the top 100 and 12 in the top 10.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Minnie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21,724 | |
| 1890s | 24,615 | |
| 1900s | 19,715 | |
| 1910s | 27,486 | |
| 1920s | 26,905 | |
| 1930s | 15,874 | |
| 1940s | 11,736 | |
| 1950s | 5,933 | |
| 1960s | 2,266 | |
| 1970s | 966 | |
| 1980s | 488 | |
| 1990s | 345 | |
| 2000s | 298 | |
| 2010s | 572 | |
| 2020s | 301 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Minnie was the 71st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Minnie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Maypeak 1919
- Effiepeak 1919
- Augustapeak 1915
- Myrtiepeak 1917
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Lidapeak 1918
- Ettapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.