Minette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Minette

The Social Security Administration has registered 731 babies named Minette between 1893 and 2020, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Minette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Minette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Minette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 9 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Minette in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Minette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 731 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.