How Many People Are Named Minerva?
people named Minerva are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 42,300 people in the US has this name
Based on 15,823 babies named Minerva in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
221 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Possibly derived from Latin mens meaning "intellect", but more likely of Etruscan origin. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and war, approximately equivalent to the Greek goddess Athena. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since after the Renaissance.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Minerva in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Minerva alive today is about 50 years old, and 44% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 33 and 69 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Minerva first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1955, to 221 babies. In 2025, 89 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Minerva has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #194, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,112.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,112 |
| Best rank | #194 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #693 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Minerva alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Minerva were born in Texas than in any other state: about 2,540 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Minerva was given 6.3 times as often in Texas, 2.1 times in California and 1.9 times in New York.
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