Minerva
Minerva is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 74 births. Its best rank was 194th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 740.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1955221 births
- Best rank
- #194in 1880
- Since 1880
- 15,734people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,734 girls have been named Minerva in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 221 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1950s alone account for 12%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Minerva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 661 | |
| 1890s | 781 | |
| 1900s | 828 | |
| 1910s | 1,591 | |
| 1920s | 1,738 | |
| 1930s | 1,248 | |
| 1940s | 1,337 | |
| 1950s | 1,874 | |
| 1960s | 1,585 | |
| 1970s | 1,070 | |
| 1980s | 837 | |
| 1990s | 669 | |
| 2000s | 555 | |
| 2010s | 557 | |
| 2020s | 403 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Minerva was the 625th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Minerva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosapeak 1925
- Melvinapeak 1920
- Deliapeak 1957
- Alidapeak 1917
- Susiepeak 1919
- Partheniapeak 1923
- Estellapeak 1921
- Dorapeak 1921
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.