Minervia

Last seen for girls in 1938 at #3,181

Peak · girls
1880 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
95
since 1880

Minervia over time

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Rank among girls' names. Minervia has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201883peak #679, 1880girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1938#3,1818
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1929#4,5705
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1925#4,4266
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1919#3,8177
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1914#3,6185
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1910#2,3985
1909#2,2085
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1907#2,0615
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1901#1,3397
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1893#1,0918
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1891#1,3325
1890#1,0997
1889#1,2795
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1885#1,0475
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1883#9205
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1880#6797
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Minervia was already there! It came in at #679, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1881–1889, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Minervia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1938
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #679 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1883
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,999
  • Highest: 1 in 12,999 girls born in 1880 were named Minervia (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 137,932 girls born in 1938 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1880s
  • 23.2% of all girls named Minervia (22) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s22#679 (1880)#981
1890s20#1,091 (1893)#1,174
1900s17#1,339 (1901)#1,869
1910s17#2,398 (1910)#3,278
1920s11#4,426 (1925)#4,498
1930s8#3,181 (1938)#3,181

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Minervia in 1883

girls
#920
5 births · 1 in 22,464 girls

Top girls' names in 1883

  1. #1Mary8,012
  2. #2Anna3,306
  3. #3Emma2,367
  4. #4Elizabeth2,255
  5. #5Minnie2,035
  6. #6Margaret1,881
  7. #7Bertha1,681
  8. #8Ida1,634
  9. #9Annie1,589
  10. #10Clara1,548
  11. #920Minervia5
More about 1883

girls

112,320 girls got a published name in 1883; 1 in 22,464 of them was named Minervia, which outranked 12.7% of the 1,054 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Minervia
  1. #817Thresa6
  2. #817Tom6
  3. #817Valeria6
  4. #920Minervia5
  5. #920Aida5
  6. #920Alene5
  7. #920Alla5

Tied with 134 names at #920; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1882
Risers
  1. 391Cathryn#908#517
  2. 378Paula#813#435
  3. 372Annis#908#536
  4. 365Malissa#740#375
  5. 348Hope#813#465
Fallers
  1. 390Gena#530#920
  2. 365Minna#389#754
  3. 360Arie#560#920
  4. 360Leone#560#920
  5. 360Sybil#560#920

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1883