Minor
Minor is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 378th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192042 births
- Best rank
- #378in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,728people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,728 boys have been named Minor in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 42 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 42 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Minor | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 129 | |
| 1890s | 95 | |
| 1900s | 79 | |
| 1910s | 274 | |
| 1920s | 333 | |
| 1930s | 206 | |
| 1940s | 203 | |
| 1950s | 133 | |
| 1960s | 87 | |
| 1970s | 65 | |
| 1980s | 21 | |
| 1990s | 28 | |
| 2000s | 53 | |
| 2010s | 22 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Minor was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Minor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elzapeak 1922
- Hamppeak 1920
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Colonelpeak 1920
- Perleypeak 1915
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Benjimanpeak 1921
- Bertpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.