Minnette
Minnette was last recorded in 1979, when 7 babies were given it; 593 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Minnette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Minnette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,646, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1912, the peak
Minnette peaked in 1912, when 18 girls were given it, #1,279 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #8,646 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,669 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,842 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,885 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,399 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,964 | 6.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,480 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,854 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,316 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,310 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 9 | #4,783 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,194 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,672 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,039 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,017 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,777 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,226 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,749 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,438 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,108 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,783 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,787 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,540 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,142 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,870 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,091 | 8.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,871 | 9.5 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,071 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,259 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,704 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,516 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,305 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,091 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,225 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,165 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,572 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,299 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,556 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,452 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,171 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,335 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,347 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,262 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,509 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,332 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,022 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,382 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,476 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,279 | 32.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,736 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,322 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,156 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,335 | 15.0 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,850 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,444 | 29.1 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,544 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,611 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,128 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,528 | 25.7 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,349 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,749 | 21.0 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,634 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,142 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,237 | 33.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,469 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,094 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,239 | 33.6 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,224 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,153 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Minnette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Minnette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Minnette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Minnette, and how old are they?
An estimated 159 Americans named Minnette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 352 people named Minnette (349 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,512 babies since 1880, Minnette is the second most given (39% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Minnette
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Minnette and names like it
- Compare Minnette and MinetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMinnette peaked in 1912.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Minnette since 1910.
- The top names of 1912The year the most babies were named Minnette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Minnette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.