Boys' name · since 1915
Minot
10 babies named Minot in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1915. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 10
- total births
- 1915–1925
- years on record
- 1910s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Minot sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 10 recorded since 1915.
Minot has 10 recorded births among boys since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1910s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 1925.
- 10 total births
- 1915–1925 years on record
- 1910s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Minot's 10 recorded births place it above 21% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Minot's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Minot's full recorded timeline at 1925, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1915, with just 5 recorded births.
Minot popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–1925
- Peak year (1915)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Minot by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1910s was Minot's strongest decade.
5 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Minot births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
5 births
- 1920s
1920s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1910s at 5 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Minot's usage has stayed within range of its 1910s decade-level peak (5 total births) through the 1920s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–1925 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Minot: Baby Name Since 1915 - 10 Births, Peak 1915." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/minot. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Minot draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.