Minnette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Minnette

The Social Security Administration has registered 593 babies named Minnette between 1885 and 1979, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Minnette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1912, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Minnette performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Minnette shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Minnette in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Minnette 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 593 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.