Minoru

Where Minoru comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Minoru.

  • Vowel-ended
Minoru through the years
  1. 1912
    Minoru Yamasaki born
    American architect
  2. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,045 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1926
    Peak, #963
    50 babies named Minoru, the most in any year.
  4. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,647.
  5. 1946
    Minoru Kobata born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Minoru Kobata · Japanese association football player, born 1946
  • Minoru Yamasaki · American architect, 1912–1986
  • Minoru Genda · Japanese politician, Imperial Japanese Navy officer and JSDAF general, 1904–1989
  • Minoru Suganuma · Japanese association football player, born 1985
  • Minoru Kushibiki · Japanese association football player, born 1967

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.