Meaning not yet researched.
Minnie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #5 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5 in 1886; #3,060 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Minnie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,060 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #5.
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Minnie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 girls in 2025. Peak: #5 in 1886 · most girls in one year: 3,274 (1916).
In 2025, 54 US girls were named Minnie, making it the 3,060th most common girls’ name of the year, down 348 places from #2,712 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 64 girls named Minnie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,274, in 1916. For comparison, it was #2,638 in 2015 and #258 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Minnie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 1,755 babies with the name. In all, 160,067 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 27,588 babies named Minnie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 631 US girls were named Minnie; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,764 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mina (19,939 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mena, Minette and Mennie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Wilhelmina.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mena (1,678), Minette (732), Mennie (673), Miani (231), Ninnie (136), Mimie (135), Minie (126), Mini (37), Minnia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Minnie is listed as a nickname for Almina, Arminta, Marietta, Minerva, Wilhelmina.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,188 | — | — |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,762 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,639 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,335 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,904 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,789 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,687 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,229 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1976 | 82 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1975 | 96 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1974 | 104 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1973 | 108 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1972 | 115 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1971 | 134 | #956 | — | — |
| 1970 | 126 | #993 | — | — |
| 1969 | 138 | #901 | — | — |
| 1968 | 155 | #814 | — | — |
| 1967 | 175 | #741 | — | — |
| 1966 | 181 | #733 | — | — |
| 1965 | 208 | #683 | — | — |
| 1964 | 223 | #687 | — | — |
| 1963 | 245 | #645 | — | — |
| 1962 | 270 | #610 | — | — |
| 1961 | 321 | #551 | — | — |
| 1960 | 350 | #515 | — | — |
| 1959 | 423 | #470 | 5 | #4,374 |
| 1958 | 416 | #465 | — | — |
| 1957 | 418 | #464 | 5 | #4,358 |
| 1956 | 494 | #406 | — | — |
| 1955 | 546 | #377 | — | — |
| 1954 | 614 | #347 | — | — |
| 1953 | 657 | #318 | 5 | #4,177 |
| 1952 | 696 | #302 | — | — |
| 1951 | 792 | #279 | — | — |
| 1950 | 877 | #258 | 6 | #3,575 |
| 1949 | 935 | #247 | 5 | #4,052 |
| 1948 | 993 | #237 | 6 | #3,558 |
| 1947 | 1,051 | #229 | 9 | #2,807 |
| 1946 | 1,071 | #220 | 5 | #3,854 |
| 1945 | 1,088 | #187 | 7 | #2,910 |
| 1944 | 1,221 | #175 | 8 | #2,784 |
| 1943 | 1,347 | #173 | 10 | #2,508 |
| 1942 | 1,446 | #161 | 9 | #2,653 |
| 1941 | 1,355 | #166 | 8 | #2,811 |
| 1940 | 1,229 | #168 | 8 | #2,800 |
| 1939 | 1,268 | #165 | 12 | #2,133 |
| 1938 | 1,361 | #161 | 14 | #1,950 |
| 1937 | 1,378 | #156 | 15 | #1,889 |
| 1936 | 1,430 | #148 | 15 | #1,855 |
| 1935 | 1,581 | #139 | 9 | #2,653 |
| 1934 | 1,663 | #133 | 19 | #1,650 |
| 1933 | 1,603 | #135 | 13 | #2,061 |
| 1932 | 1,809 | #129 | 17 | #1,829 |
| 1931 | 1,773 | #129 | 18 | #1,750 |
| 1930 | 2,008 | #122 | 11 | #2,556 |
| 1929 | 1,994 | #124 | 17 | #1,906 |
| 1928 | 2,227 | #118 | 12 | #2,485 |
| 1927 | 2,469 | #114 | 15 | #2,168 |
| 1926 | 2,449 | #111 | 10 | #2,843 |
| 1925 | 2,739 | #104 | 21 | #1,725 |
| 1924 | 2,885 | #100 | 16 | #2,103 |
| 1923 | 2,785 | #99 | 17 | #1,999 |
| 1922 | 3,115 | #91 | 14 | #2,310 |
| 1921 | 2,998 | #96 | 10 | #2,924 |
| 1920 | 3,244 | #87 | 13 | #2,414 |
| 1919 | 3,272 | #80 | 16 | #2,035 |
| 1918 | 3,181 | #88 | 11 | #2,651 |
| 1917 | 3,262 | #75 | 7 | #3,449 |
| 1916 | 3,274 | #71 | 12 | #2,356 |
| 1915 | 3,270 | #68 | 14 | #2,033 |
| 1914 | 2,718 | #67 | 10 | #2,217 |
| 1913 | 2,332 | #63 | 8 | #2,203 |
| 1912 | 2,295 | #60 | 11 | #1,592 |
| 1911 | 1,899 | #52 | 7 | #1,488 |
| 1910 | 1,983 | #50 | 6 | #1,530 |
| 1909 | 1,779 | #50 | 8 | #1,130 |
| 1908 | 1,817 | #47 | 8 | #1,090 |
| 1907 | 1,907 | #40 | 10 | #914 |
| 1906 | 1,777 | #39 | 8 | #979 |
| 1905 | 1,950 | #35 | 6 | #1,190 |
| 1904 | 1,885 | #35 | 5 | #1,338 |
| 1903 | 1,846 | #35 | 13 | #644 |
| 1902 | 2,055 | #29 | 11 | #719 |
| 1901 | 2,026 | #26 | 10 | #713 |
| 1900 | 2,673 | #22 | 12 | #765 |
| 1899 | 2,036 | #25 | 10 | #692 |
| 1898 | 2,409 | #21 | 8 | #862 |
| 1897 | 2,284 | #21 | 16 | #509 |
| 1896 | 2,530 | #16 | 14 | #581 |
| 1895 | 2,567 | #13 | 9 | #780 |
| 1894 | 2,592 | #12 | 6 | #1,041 |
| 1893 | 2,510 | #12 | 18 | #442 |
| 1892 | 2,609 | #12 | 8 | #838 |
| 1891 | 2,428 | #8 | 12 | #551 |
| 1890 | 2,650 | #8 | 16 | #476 |
| 1889 | 2,624 | #6 | 13 | #540 |
| 1888 | 2,654 | #6 | 14 | #544 |
| 1887 | 2,215 | #6 | 11 | #572 |
| 1886 | 2,372 | #5 | 8 | #739 |
| 1885 | 2,178 | #6 | 6 | #901 |
| 1884 | 2,243 | #5 | — | — |
| 1883 | 2,035 | #5 | 14 | #492 |
| 1882 | 2,004 | #5 | 10 | #632 |
| 1881 | 1,653 | #6 | 8 | #685 |
| 1880 | 1,746 | #5 | 9 | #669 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).