How Many People Are Named Mignon?

1,174

people named Mignon are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 291,128 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,239 babies named Mignon in Social Security records from 1880 to 2013, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#9,549

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#5,354

See the top 100

Peak Year

1979

55 births

Trend

2013

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Literature
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "cute, darling" in French. This is the name of a character in Ambroise Thomas's opera 'Mignon' (1866), which was based on a novel by Goethe.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Mignon in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Mignon alive today is about 56 years old, and 54% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 45 and 66 in 2025.

Under 30 56
4.8%
30 to 59 636
54.2%
60 and over 482
41.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Mignon first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1979, to 55 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2013.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2013

🏆 Rank History

Mignon has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #727, in 1885.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#727 (1885)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,161 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Mignon alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Mignon were born in California than in any other state: about 96 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mignon was given about 6.2 times as often in California.

California 96
Georgia 24
Louisiana 21
Texas 10
Michigan 5
New Jersey 5
Maryland 4

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