Miner

Where Miner comes from

Miner hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1857
    Miner G. Norton born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #720
    7 babies named Miner — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.