Girls' name · since 1880
Mintie
Mintie has 446 recorded births since 1880 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1885 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #12,683 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 446
- born since 1880
- 1880s
- peak decade
446 girls have been named Mintie since 1880, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mintie has 446 recorded births among girls since 1880, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1880s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1880 to 1943.
- #12,683 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 446 born since 1880
- 1880s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mintie ranks #12,683 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 446 born since 1880, peaking in the 1880s.
- #12,683 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 446
- born since 1880
- 1880s
- peak decade
Mintie's 446 recorded births place it above 82.46% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mintie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mintie's SSA record in two at 1904 and the more recent half accounts for 35% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 65%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 1909, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1885 peak of 16, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mintie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1880–1943
- Peak year (1885)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 64 years of records
Mintie by decade
1880s is the heaviest window (134 births, 30% of the file).
1880s was Mintie's strongest decade.
134 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 30% of all-time use.
Mintie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1880s
1880s
134 births
- 1890s
1890s
113 births
- 1900s
1900s
66 births
- 1910s
1910s
67 births
- 1920s 35
1920s
35 births
- 1930s 26
1930s
26 births
- 1940s 5
1940s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1880s at 134 births (30% of all-time use).
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What to do with Mintie's data
- Mintie's decade-level peak was the 1880s (134 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1940s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Mintie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1885)
Similar record span (~63 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 1880–1943 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Mintie 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 August 2026.