Minnie
2025 SSA
About Minnie
Minnie was wildly popular at the turn of the last century — it was the fifth or sixth most popular name throughout the 1880s — but is completely obscure in the US today. Blame Mickey's girlfriend. Regardless, it's possible that the up and coming trend toward old-fashioned nickname-names — think Maisie, Mamie, Millie — may give Minnie (all on its own, not as a short form of anything) a new moment in the sun.
In fact, Minnie has already broken in to the England and Wales Top 1000 and as of 2023, it ranked at #444. Traditionally used as a short form of Wilhelmina, Minnie could also be used as a nickname for a variety of names, including Minerva, Martina, Marin, Mary, Hermione, Jasmine, and Araminta.
Minnie Driver (born Amelia) has given it some modern celeb cred and there have been characters named Minnie in Dickens's Little Dorrit and Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz classic, while "Minnie the Minx" (full name Hermione Makepeace) appears in the long-running British comic, The Beano.
Pronounced MIN-ee.
As of October 2026, Minnie ranked #3060 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #5 in 1883, Nameberry popularity #418.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,261 | 50 | 28 |
| 2015 | #2,638 | 68 | 38.1 |
| 2016 | #2,659 | 66 | 37.2 |
| 2017 | #2,627 | 67 | 38.8 |
| 2018 | #2,602 | 67 | 39.4 |
| 2019 | #2,418 | 74 | 44.1 |
| 2020 | #2,462 | 71 | 43.9 |
| 2021 | #2,740 | 63 | 38.4 |
| 2022 | #3,016 | 55 | 33.5 |
| 2023 | #3,254 | 50 | 31.2 |
| 2024 | #2,758 | 62 | 38.3 |
| 2025 | #3,060 | 54 | 33.6 |
World rankings
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Minnie on lists
Famous Minnies
- Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
English actress
- Minnie
stage name of Nicha Yontararak; singer in South Korean girl group (G)I,DLE
- Minnie Pearl (born Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon)
American country comedienne
- Minnie Julia Riperton
American singer
- Amalia Mignon "Minnie" Hauck
American opera singer
- Minnie Fisher Cunningham
American suffragist; first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters
- Minnie D. Craig
American politician
- Minnie Devereaux
Canadian silent film actress
- Minnie Maddern Fiske (born Marie Augusta Davey)
American stage actress
- Minnie Gentry (born Minnie Lee Watson)
American actress
- Minnie Dupree
American actress
- Minnie Marx (born Miene Schönberg)
American manager and mother of the Marx Brothers
- Minnie Egener
American opera singer
- Minnie Pwerle
Australian Aboriginal painter
- Huldah Pierce "Minnie" Warren
American dwarf singer and circus performer
- Minnie Tittell Brune
American,Australian actress
- Pearl Minnie Anderson (b. 2005)
daughter of actress Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson
- Minnie Blossom Bourne (b. 2013)
daughter of singer Rachel Stevens & Alex Bourne
- Minnie Ida Anderson (b. 2013)
daughter of Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson
- Minnie Theodora Osbourne (b. 2018)
daughter of English media personality Jack Osbourne, sister to Pearl Clementine and Andy Rose
Minnie in pop culture
- Minnie Mouse
Disney character
- Minnie Brandon
the daughter of Rebecca "Becky" Brandon (nee Bloomwood) and Luke Brandon from the 'Shopaholic' book series written by Sophie Kinsella
- Minnie May Barry
character in L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables"
- Minnie "Pet" Meagles Gowan
character in Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit"
- Minnie the Minx
character in British comic "The Beano"
- Minnie Crozier
character on New Zealand soap "Shortland Street"
- Minnie Bannister
character on British radio series "The Goon Show"
- Minnie Bishop
character in anime/manga "Strike Witches"
- "Minnie the Moocher
" jazz song by Cab Calloway
- Minnie Fay
character from movie "Hello, Dolly!"
- Minnie Goetze
character in the graphic novel and film "The Diary of a Teenage Girl"