Miner

Where Miner comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Miner.

Miner through the years
  1. 1857
    Miner G. Norton born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #720
    7 babies named Miner, its best rank.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1897
    Miner Searle Bates born
    scholar from Newark
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Miner G. Norton · American politician, 1857–1926
  • Miner Searle Bates · scholar from Newark, 1897–1978
  • Miner Kilbourne Kellogg · American artist, 1814–1889

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.