Mignonne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mignonne has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1948, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Mignonne, 1965
1 in 518,000
Mignonne over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mignonne?
Mignonne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 518,000
- 7 of 3,625,243 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 358,976 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mignonne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 358,976 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mignonne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mignonnes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mignonne was born before 1924 — so the typical Mignonne is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 35.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (39).
Is Mignonne 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 1948 (11)
- Years since peak
- 77
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.8% average annual change
Spellings of Mignonne
Mignonne is not the most common spelling — Mignon is, with 95.3% against Mignonne's 4.7%.
- Mignon95.3%2,239
- Mignonne4.7%110
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.
Mignonne around the world
Where Mignonne 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.
- France1906–1927#1,368in 1927
- South Australia1945–1976#645in 1976
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.
Mignonne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mignonne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mignonne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.