Minerva
Where Minerva comes from
Minerva 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.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1858Minerva J. Chapman bornAmerican artist
- 1880First SSA year, and the peak#193 among girls with 63 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
- 1999Minerva Hase bornGerman figure skater
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Minerva Hase · German figure skater, born 1999
- Minerva J. Chapman · American artist, 1858–1947
- Minerva Mirabal · Dominican lawyer and political activist, 1926–1960
- Minerva Urecal · actress, 1894–1966
- Minerva Bernardino · Dominican diplomat, 1907–1998
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.