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Mignon

Girls' name

Cute, darling

Mignon has been given to 2,239 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Mignon, 2013

1 in 608,000

Mignon over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mignon: meaning, origin, and history

Cute, darling

French

What Mignon means

Mignon means “cute, darling”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mignon is used in Literature.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.ɲɔ̃/ for Mignon.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from French Mignon. * (surname): Occasionally of Walloon origin.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mignon (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mignon is used in English. Its origins include French.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,239 girls were recorded with the name Mignon between 1880 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1979; its best national rank was #727 in 1885.

How common is Mignon?

Mignon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mignon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mignon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mignons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mignon was born before 1949 — so the typical Mignon is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,116
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (316).

Is Mignon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (55)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#727
1885

Spellings of Mignon

Mignon is the most-used spelling, taking 52.8% of the 4,242 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mignon is used

Across 1910–2025, Mignon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 270,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mignon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mignon around the world

Where Mignon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1912–1927
    #1,332
    in 1927
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mignon

People whose public names include Mignon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mignon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#727
1885
Peak year
1979
55 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
2,239
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mignon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Mignon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mignon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CarlCurtisLawrenceCelestaOneidaFredericaArlenaChristenaPaulAlethiaRaymondGlenn

Sibling names for Mignon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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