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
  1. 1858
    Minerva J. Chapman born
    American artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #193 among girls with 63 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1999
    Minerva Hase born
    German 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.