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Mina vs Minnette

American parents have registered 19,939 Minas since 1880, against 593 Minnettes. Mina is still ahead, with 506 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mina against Minnette, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mina Minnette

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1970, when Mina had 37 and Minnette had 11.

Side by side

  Mina Minnette
Total US births 19,939593
Most in one year 52318
Babies in 2025 506under 5
Estimated living today 14,000160
Median age today 1563
Peak year 20231912
Best rank 586th girls1,252nd girls
Rank in 2025 595thunranked
First recorded 18801885
Girls / boys 19,267 / 672593 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Minnettes alive today are over 63; half the Minas are over 15. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mina and Minnette.