Minor
Minor was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,740 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Minor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Minor?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,394, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1923, the peak
Minor peaked in 1923, when 45 babies were given it (39 boys, #1,151 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,394 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,667 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,693 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,605 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,923 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,679 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,813 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,084 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,437 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,074 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #8,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,975 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,054 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,449 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,783 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,829 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,244 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,912 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,717 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,789 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,752 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,667 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,491 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,795 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,928 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,480 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,353 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,560 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,290 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,733 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,872 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,890 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,440 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,453 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,470 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,548 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 24 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,020 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 10 | #999 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,532 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 15 | #689 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 9 | #898 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 9 | #895 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 8 | #892 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 9 | #841 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,022 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,019 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 10 | #709 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 11 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 7 | #945 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 12 | #618 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 16 | #474 | 0.14 |
| 1892 | 17 | #492 | 0.14 |
| 1891 | 8 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 14 | #526 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 6 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 12 | #597 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 14 | #475 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 18 | #425 | 0.16 |
| 1885 | 9 | #680 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 16 | #481 | 0.14 |
| 1883 | 10 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 9 | #682 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 14 | #475 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 21 | #378 | 0.19 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Minor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Minor has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Minor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Minor, and how old are they?
An estimated 447 Americans named Minor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 43 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,110 people named Minor (1,501 women and girls, 2,609 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 542 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.6 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,833 babies since 1880, Minor is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Minor (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Minor
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 Minor and names like it
- Compare Minor and MynorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMinor peaked in 1923.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Minor since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Minor.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Minor alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.