Minor

Where Minor comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Minor.

Minor through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #373 among boys with 21 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #652.
  3. 1889
    Minor Watson born
    American actor
  4. 1908
    Minor White born
    (1908-1976) American photographer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Minor White · (1908-1976) American photographer, 1908–1976
  • Minor Watson · American actor, 1889–1965
  • Minor Cooper Keith · American businessman, 1848–1929
  • Minor White · American astronomer
  • Minor Calvo · Costa Rican priest and criminal, born 1964

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.