Miner
Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,886
- Peak · boys
- 1883 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 274since 1880
Miner over time
Rank among boys' names. Miner has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
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| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
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| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | #2,523 | 11 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #2,588 | 11 |
| 1924 | #2,641 | 11 |
| 1923 | #2,950 | 9 |
| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | #2,632 | 11 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #2,091 | 14 |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
| 1914 | #1,868 | 12 |
| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
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| 1904 | #1,205 | 5 |
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| 1892 | #861 | 7 |
| 1891 | #766 | 7 |
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| 1887 | #921 | 5 |
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| 1885 | #936 | 5 |
| 1884 | #848 | 6 |
| 1883 | #720 | 7 |
| 1882 | — | |
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| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Miner was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1882, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Miner
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1955
- Biggest drop: 128 spots in 1884 (#720 → #848)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1883 at #720 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1883–1885
- Highest: 1 in 14,456 boys born in 1891 were named Miner (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 411,978 boys born in 1955 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #720 in 1883, was only 1 in 14,946 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.8% of all boys named Miner (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | #720 (1883) | #867 |
| 1890s | 14 | #766 (1891) | #814 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,205 (1904) | #1,205 |
| 1910s | 80 | #1,740 (1911) | #2,443 |
| 1920s | 87 | #2,523 (1927) | #3,117 |
| 1930s | 27 | #3,277 (1934) | #3,476 |
| 1940s | 17 | #3,130 (1940) | #3,344 |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,425 (1953) | #3,675 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Miner in 1887
Top boys' names in 1887
More about 1887
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101,410 boys got a published name in 1887; 1 in 20,282 of them was named Miner, which outranked 13.7% of the 1,067 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 146 names at #921; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.