Minna
Minna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 369th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191654 births
- Best rank
- #369in 1889
- Since 1880
- 3,122people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,122 girls have been named Minna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 54 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1910s alone account for 13%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Minna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 218 | |
| 1890s | 362 | |
| 1900s | 295 | |
| 1910s | 411 | |
| 1920s | 226 | |
| 1930s | 134 | |
| 1940s | 136 | |
| 1950s | 86 | |
| 1960s | 51 | |
| 1970s | 135 | |
| 1980s | 161 | |
| 1990s | 224 | |
| 2000s | 239 | |
| 2010s | 301 | |
| 2020s | 143 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Minna was the 937th 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 Minna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mathildepeak 1894
- Metapeak 1892
- Cordiepeak 1919
- Mabelpeak 1915
- Bessiepeak 1916
- Arriepeak 1922
- Lelahpeak 1915
- Gertiepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
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.