Miner

Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,886

Peak · boys
1883 · 7 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
274
since 1880

Miner over time

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Rank among boys' names. Miner has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201883peak #720, 1883boys
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1955#3,8865
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1953#3,4256
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1942#3,2126
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1937#3,5185
1936#3,5495
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1931#3,3906
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1929#3,2477
1928#4,1515
1927#2,52311
1926#3,1398
1925#2,58811
1924#2,64111
1923#2,9509
1922#3,0149
1921#2,63211
1920#4,2865
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1918#2,69910
1917#2,09114
1916#3,1777
1915#3,8255
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1913#2,2737
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1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Miner was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1882, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Miner is popular in 1883

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Miner
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1955
  • Biggest drop: 128 spots in 1884 (#720 → #848)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1883 at #720 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1886, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1883–1885
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,456
  • Highest: 1 in 14,456 boys born in 1891 were named Miner (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 411,978 boys born in 1955 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #720 in 1883, was only 1 in 14,946 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 31.8% of all boys named Miner (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s28#720 (1883)#867
1890s14#766 (1891)#814
1900s5#1,205 (1904)#1,205
1910s80#1,740 (1911)#2,443
1920s87#2,523 (1927)#3,117
1930s27#3,277 (1934)#3,476
1940s17#3,130 (1940)#3,344
1950s16#3,425 (1953)#3,675

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Miner in 1883

boys
#720
7 births · 1 in 14,946 boys

Top boys' names in 1883

  1. #1John8,894
  2. #2William8,387
  3. #3James5,223
  4. #4Charles4,826
  5. #5George4,736
  6. #6Frank2,986
  7. #7Joseph2,515
  8. #8Henry2,383
  9. #9Robert2,334
  10. #10Thomas2,316
  11. #720Miner7
More about 1883

boys

104,625 boys got a published name in 1883; 1 in 14,946 of them was named Miner, which outranked 30.1% of the 1,030 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Miner
  1. #677Shelton8
  2. #677Willian8
  3. #677Wilton8
  4. #720Miner7
  5. #720Addie7
  6. #720Albin7
  7. #720Alpheus7
  8. #799Ace6
  9. #799Adolf6
  10. #799Algie6

Tied with 78 names at #720; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1882
Risers
  1. ↑ 416Sumner#943 → #527
  2. ↑ 377Alf#837 → #460
  3. ↑ 358Arlie#837 → #479
  4. ↑ 358Everette#837 → #479
  5. ↑ 346Ocie#943 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 429Morton#370 → #799
  2. ↓ 423Saul#469 → #892
  3. ↓ 403Pierce#489 → #892
  4. ↓ 378Bryant#514 → #892
  5. ↓ 352Buck#540 → #892

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1883 →