girls:
15.7k births since 1880
#1214 (79th percentile)
overall:
15.7k births since 1880
#2086 (73rd percentile)
The name Minerva is the #2,086 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,660 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 73.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,214 (78.8% percentile) for all time with 15,660 births since 1880.
Minerva has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Minerva reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 33.5% percentile (ranked #384) with 188 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 645 births per million (ranked 26.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Minerva ranks #859 for girls (9.3% percentile) with 53 births per million, which is 8.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Minerva".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Minerva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.6% confident that Minerva is pronounced as mih-NER-vuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-NER-vuh, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH0 N ER1 V AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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