How rare is the name Minor?

4,110 people in the United States have the first name Minor, about 1 in 73,487. It ranks #4,505 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MINOR

#4,505

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,110
About
1 in 73,487
This common or more
84.1%
Who bears it

Of the 4,110 people named Minor, 42.9% reported their origin as White, 34.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 14.4% as Black. 63.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Minor peaked in 1923, when 45 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802015
Peak year
1923
Births that year
45
In 2015
5 ▼89%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 1,740 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Minor by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #1,100. The largest share of babies named Minor, 37.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,100129
1890s#1,65395
1900s#2,18079
1910s#2,208274
1920s#2,445345
1930s#3,069206
1940s#3,359203
1950s#4,992133
1960s#6,99887
1970s#10,54765
1980s#20,45421
1990s#24,01728
2000s#23,02753
2010s#32,91922
Before 190113.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2737.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4522%
Baby boom 1946–6414.6%
Generation X 1965–805.7%
Millennials 1981–962.8%
Generation Z 1997–123.3%
2013 and later1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Minor

#4,503 Ara · 4,113#4,504 Raeann · 4,111#4,506 Alfonzo · 4,109#4,506 Katherin · 4,109

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Minor, most common first.

#25,632 Minoru · 369#32,550 Miner · 258#32,949 Minori · 253

Also a last name

As a last name, Minor ranks #1,146 of 156,621, with 30,050 people. See Minor as a last name

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