Minette

girls:

731 births since 1893

#4985 (13th percentile)

overall:

731 births since 1893

#7008 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Minette is the #7,008 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 731 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 9.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,985 (12.8% percentile) for all time with 731 births since 1893.

Minette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (first recorded for girls in 1893). Birth data for Minette is available in 78 out of the 128 years between 1893 and 2020. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Minette reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #561) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 23 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Minette".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
731
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1916
First Recorded
1893
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#561
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Minette

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Our model is 100.0% confident that Minette is pronounced as mih-NEHT, which has 2 syllables.

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