Minna
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births
- Peak · girls
- 1889 · 43 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,151since 1880
Minna over time
Rank among girls' names. Minna has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #4,108 | 35 |
| 2021 | #4,719 | 28 |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 |
| 1998 | #4,142 | 27 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 |
| 1948 | #2,828 | 13 |
| 1947 | #2,354 | 18 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 |
| 1942 | #1,804 | 22 |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 |
| 1940 | #2,203 | 14 |
| 1939 | #1,881 | 18 |
| 1938 | #1,703 | 21 |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 |
| 1935 | #1,845 | 18 |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | #2,581 | 11 |
| 1930 | #2,202 | 15 |
| 1929 | #1,892 | 19 |
| 1928 | #2,381 | 14 |
| 1927 | #1,935 | 20 |
| 1926 | #1,772 | 23 |
| 1925 | #2,191 | 17 |
| 1924 | #1,566 | 29 |
| 1923 | #1,782 | 23 |
| 1922 | #1,342 | 35 |
| 1921 | #1,765 | 24 |
| 1920 | #1,816 | 22 |
| 1919 | #1,242 | 37 |
| 1918 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1917 | #1,002 | 49 |
| 1916 | #928 | 54 |
| 1915 | #968 | 47 |
| 1914 | #817 | 51 |
| 1913 | #795 | 44 |
| 1912 | #919 | 30 |
| 1911 | #766 | 32 |
| 1910 | #737 | 33 |
| 1909 | #594 | 42 |
| 1908 | #678 | 32 |
| 1907 | #637 | 34 |
| 1906 | #742 | 24 |
| 1905 | #642 | 30 |
| 1904 | #682 | 26 |
| 1903 | #760 | 20 |
| 1902 | #667 | 25 |
| 1901 | #659 | 23 |
| 1900 | #543 | 39 |
| 1899 | #593 | 27 |
| 1898 | #555 | 33 |
| 1897 | #453 | 42 |
| 1896 | #528 | 32 |
| 1895 | #404 | 48 |
| 1894 | #487 | 34 |
| 1893 | #408 | 43 |
| 1892 | #471 | 33 |
| 1891 | #413 | 36 |
| 1890 | #435 | 34 |
| 1889 | #368 | 43 |
| 1888 | #443 | 31 |
| 1887 | #378 | 32 |
| 1886 | #528 | 18 |
| 1885 | #470 | 20 |
| 1884 | #463 | 19 |
| 1883 | #754 | 7 |
| 1882 | #389 | 21 |
| 1881 | #539 | 10 |
| 1880 | #403 | 17 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Minna was already there! It came in at #403, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Minna is popular in 1912
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- Top 10
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- Not published
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- New York#324 · 1 in 4,116
Best ever in a state: #244 in Massachusetts, 1911.
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| New York | #324 | 12 | 1 in 4,116 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Minna
- 111 spots since 2024 (#4,772 → #4,661)
- 398 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #4,661)
- 366 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #4,661)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 1884 (#754 → #463)
- Biggest drop: 365 spots in 1883 (#389 → #754)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1889 at #368 (43 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1880–1916
- Highest: 1 in 4,148 girls born in 1889 were named Minna (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 13.0% of all girls named Minna (411) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 218 | #368 (1889) | #474 |
| 1890s | 362 | #404 (1895) | #475 |
| 1900s | 295 | #543 (1900) | #660 |
| 1910s | 411 | #737 (1910) | #947 |
| 1920s | 226 | #1,342 (1922) | #1,844 |
| 1930s | 134 | #1,703 (1938) | #2,418 |
| 1940s | 136 | #1,804 (1942) | #2,666 |
| 1950s | 86 | #2,781 (1950) | #3,981 |
| 1960s | 51 | #4,437 (1960) | #5,548 |
| 1970s | 135 | #3,188 (1976) | #4,700 |
| 1980s | 161 | #3,857 (1987) | #4,903 |
| 1990s | 224 | #3,722 (1991) | #4,617 |
| 2000s | 239 | #4,576 (2006) | #5,373 |
| 2010s | 301 | #3,718 (2019) | #4,748 |
| 2020s | 172 | #4,108 (2022) | #4,747 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Minna in 1912
Top girls' names in 1912
More about 1912
girls
558,119 girls got a published name in 1912; 1 in 18,604 of them was named Minna, which outranked 73.3% of the 3,445 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).