Minnie

Where Minnie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Minnie.

  • Vowel-ended
Minnie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #5 among girls, with 1,746 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #5
    2,372 babies named Minnie, its best rank.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #187.
  4. 1947
    Minnie Riperton born
    American singer
  5. 1970
    Minnie Driver born
    British-American actress
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Minnie Driver · British-American actress, born 1970
  • Minnie Riperton · American singer, 1947–1979
  • Minnie Hauk · American singer and actor, 1851–1929
  • Minnie Dlamini · South African on-air personality, actress and model, born 1990
  • Minnie Pearl · American comedian and country singer, 1912–1996

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.