Minnie
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Minnie is also given to boys.
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 · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,261 | 50 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,638 | 68 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,659 | 66 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,627 | 67 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,602 | 67 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,418 | 74 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,462 | 71 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,740 | 63 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #3,016 | 55 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #3,254 | 50 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,758 | 62 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,060 | 54 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Minnie for girls
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Minnie on lists
Famous Minnies
- Amelia Fiona "Minnie" DriverGirl
English actress
- MinnieGirl
stage name of Nicha Yontararak; singer in South Korean girl group (G)I,DLE
- Minnie Pearl (born Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon)Girl
American country comedienne
- Minnie Julia RipertonGirl
American singer
- Amalia Mignon "Minnie" HauckGirl
American opera singer
- Minnie Fisher CunninghamGirl
American suffragist; first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters
- Minnie D. CraigGirl
American politician
- Minnie DevereauxGirl
Canadian silent film actress
- Minnie Maddern Fiske (born Marie Augusta Davey)Girl
American stage actress
- Minnie Gentry (born Minnie Lee Watson)Girl
American actress
- Minnie DupreeGirl
American actress
- Minnie Marx (born Miene Schönberg)Girl
American manager and mother of the Marx Brothers
- Minnie EgenerGirl
American opera singer
- Minnie PwerleGirl
Australian Aboriginal painter
- Huldah Pierce "Minnie" WarrenGirl
American dwarf singer and circus performer
- Minnie Tittell BruneGirl
American,Australian actress
- Pearl Minnie Anderson (b. 2005)Girl
daughter of actress Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson
- Minnie Blossom Bourne (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of singer Rachel Stevens & Alex Bourne
- Minnie Ida Anderson (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson
- Minnie Theodora Osbourne (b. 2018)Girl
daughter of English media personality Jack Osbourne, sister to Pearl Clementine and Andy Rose
Minnie in pop culture
- Minnie MouseGirl
Disney character
- Minnie BrandonGirl
the daughter of Rebecca "Becky" Brandon (nee Bloomwood) and Luke Brandon from the 'Shopaholic' book series written by Sophie Kinsella
- Minnie May BarryGirl
character in L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables"
- Minnie "Pet" Meagles GowanGirl
character in Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit"
- Minnie the MinxGirl
character in British comic "The Beano"
- Minnie CrozierGirl
character on New Zealand soap "Shortland Street"
- Minnie BannisterGirl
character on British radio series "The Goon Show"
- Minnie BishopGirl
character in anime/manga "Strike Witches"
- "Minnie the MoocherGirl
" jazz song by Cab Calloway
- Minnie FayGirl
character from movie "Hello, Dolly!"
- Minnie GoetzeGirl
character in the graphic novel and film "The Diary of a Teenage Girl"