Boys' name · since 1988
Minesh
Minesh has 12 recorded births since 1988 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1988 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 12
- total births
- 1988–1989
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Minesh sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 12 recorded since 1988.
Minesh has 12 recorded births among boys since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 1989.
- 12 total births
- 1988–1989 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Minesh's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Minesh's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Minesh splits its recorded history at 1989: 42% of all births land in the more recent half, 58% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1989 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1988 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Minesh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–1989
- Peak year (1988)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
Minesh by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Minesh's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Minesh births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Minesh: Baby Name Since 1988 - 12 Births, Peak 1988." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/minesh. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Minesh draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.