Minnie

MIN-ee

Diminutive of Wilhelmina, German

"resolute protection"

Minnie Origin and Meaning

Variation of Mary

Minnie Rank in US Top 1000

# 956 in the US

Minnie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 415 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Minnie

• 415 Nameberry 2025
• 436 England 2024
• 46 Dogs 2025
• 32 Cats 2023

20 Names Similar to Minnie

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Famous People Named Minnie

• 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

The name 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"