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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Minor

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,728

peak year 1920

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1920
42 births
Best rank
#378
in 1880
First recorded
1880
#378 that year
Last recorded
2015
no later published record
Average birth year
1932
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
113 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192042#1,104Peak
  2. 192542#1,087
  3. 191741#1,029
  4. 191841#1,073
  5. 192239#1,152

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #378 in 1880 · peak births 42 in 1920

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

1,728 boys · 12 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Minor has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.