Minna — #4760 US girls' name
3,122 babies named Minna in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 73% of names given to girls today.
13% of everyone ever named Minna was born in this single decade.
54 babies were named Minna in 1916 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Minna
The Social Security Administration has registered 3,122 babies named Minna between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Minna currently holds the #4760 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 54 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Minna performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 411 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Minna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 332 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Minna in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Minna 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 3,122 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.
Minna at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Minna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1880
- Peak year (1916)
- 54
- Annual births at peak — across 145 years of records
Currently ranks #4760 among girls.
3,122 total births across 145 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1916 with 54 births in a single year.
Minna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 411 births that decade — 13% of Minna's all-time total
Minna decade highlights
- Peak decade 411 births
- Runner-up 362 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Minna's strongest decade
411 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 13% of all-time use.
Minna by state
Where Minna concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 332 | 10.6% |
| #2 | California | | 132 | 4.2% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 22 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 11 | 0.4% |
| #5 | Texas | | 10 | 0.3% |
| #6 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 0.2% |
| #7 | Virginia | | 5 | 0.2% |
332 of 3,122 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 10.6% of nationwide
- California 4.2% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.4% of nationwide
- Texas 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 10.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.