Minta
Minta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 323rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192128 births
- Best rank
- #323in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,283people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,283 girls have been named Minta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 28 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 28 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Minta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 158 | |
| 1890s | 170 | |
| 1900s | 118 | |
| 1910s | 143 | |
| 1920s | 178 | |
| 1930s | 112 | |
| 1940s | 99 | |
| 1950s | 97 | |
| 1960s | 60 | |
| 1970s | 84 | |
| 1980s | 57 | |
| 1990s | 7 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Minta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Minta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mertiepeak 1918
- Dociapeak 1890
- Lidapeak 1918
- Mettapeak 1924
- Bellepeak 1915
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Maudepeak 1888
- Minniepeak 1916
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.