Minoru

Boys' name

To bear fruit

Minoru has been given to 675 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 1921, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Minoru, 1939

1 in 200,000

Minoru over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Minoru: meaning, origin, and history

To bear fruit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Minoru means

Minoru means “to bear fruit”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Minoru is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.no̞.ɾɯᵝ/ for Minoru.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 675 boys were recorded with the name Minoru between 1912 and 1939. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1921; its best national rank was #974 in 1926.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Minoru?

Minoru had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1939, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1939: 1 in 200,000; 11 of 2,203,433 births
Among boys only: 1 in 101,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1939: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 138,847 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Minoru sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1939 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 138,847 children born in 1939 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Minoru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Minorus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Minoru was born before 1922 — so the typical Minoru is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 95.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (370).

Is Minoru 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1921 (50)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #974; 1926

Spellings of Minoru

Minoru is not the most common spelling — Minor is, with 53.6% against Minoru's 20.9%.

Minor53.6%1,728
Mynor25.4%819
Minoru20.9%675

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 Minoru is used

Across 1910–2025, Minoru was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,083 boys, against 1 in 36,343 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

048 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 2,083
2California1 in 50,000
3Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Minoru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Minoru by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #974; 1926
Peak year: 1921; 50 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1939
All-time count: 675
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Minoru

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

Minnie Mina Minato Mingo Minh Noboru Miner Minor Minard Ming Satoru Minter Minas Mamoru Min Mindy Minton Kaoru Minus Minos Minkah Minwoo Minesh Minnis

Sibling names for Minoru

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

For a sister

Elvera Rubie Tressie Lavinia Adell Idella Dortha Linnie

For a brother

Hardy Antone Harmon Arlie Burl Dewitt Patsy Odis

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