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How popular is “Minor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Minor” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Minor” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Minor” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Minor” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Minor” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Minor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Minor” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 21 0.000104227 21 -100%
1881 14 0.000072656 14 -100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 -100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 16 0.000065719 16 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 18 0.000070501 18 -100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 -100%
1888 12 0.00004007 12 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1890 14 0.00004645 14 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 17 0.000050841 17 -100%
1893 16 0.000049197 16 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 -100%
1912 24 0.00002429 24 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 -100%
1914 31 0.000021887 31 -100%
1915 30 0.000016372 30 -100%
1916 34 0.000017576 34 -100%
1917 41 0.000020431 41 -100%
1918 41 0.000018884 41 -100%
1919 34 0.000016112 34 -100%
1920 42 0.000018562 42 -100%
1921 37 0.000015849 37 -100%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 -100%
1923 45 0.000019544 6 39 -73%
1924 39 0.000016375 6 33 -69%
1925 42 0.000018 42 -100%
1926 24 0.000010453 24 -100%
1927 35 0.00001509 35 -100%
1928 17 0.000007519 17 -100%
1929 25 0.000011404 25 -100%
1930 24 0.000010795 24 -100%
1931 22 0.000010454 22 -100%
1932 24 0.000011367 24 -100%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 -100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 -100%
1935 22 0.000010527 22 -100%
1936 22 0.000010589 22 -100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 -100%
1939 19 0.000008623 19 -100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 -100%
1942 30 0.000010982 30 -100%
1943 21 0.00000744 21 -100%
1944 25 0.000009293 25 -100%
1945 21 0.000007916 21 -100%
1946 15 0.000004694 15 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 -100%
1949 25 0.000007174 25 -100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 -100%
1951 21 0.000005701 21 -100%
1952 11 0.000002896 11 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 21 0.000005093 21 -100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%

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