Minor
About 1,740 American babies have been named Minor since 1880, most of them around 1920. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 460 Minors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Minor boys named Minor
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,740
- Estimated living today
- 460
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,089th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 12 / 1,728
How old the living Minors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,740 babies given the name since 1880, about 460 are alive — 26 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Minors
- Minor White (1908–1976)(1908-1976) American photographer
- Minor Watson (1889–1965)American actor
People named Minor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Minor is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Minor is most concentrated in Virginia (13.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Minor peaked:
Related names
Minor against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.