# Min (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/min/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 638 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 395 / 243 (38% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 49, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Mandarin 敏 (Mǐn).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 | 9,089 |
| 1992 | 9 | 9,248 |
| 1993 | 17 | 5,603 |
| 1994 | 8 | 10,205 |
| 1995 | 9 | 9,285 |
| 1996 | 8 | 10,218 |
| 1997 | 9 | 9,555 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,566 |
| 1999 | 6 | 13,852 |
| 2002 | 10 | 10,010 |
| 2004 | 6 | 15,451 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,638 |
| 2007 | 6 | 16,921 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,005 |
| 2023 | 5 | 16,824 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | 7,316 |
| 2002 | 11 | 6,383 |
| 2003 | 7 | 9,305 |
| 2004 | 12 | 6,389 |
| 2005 | 11 | 6,954 |
| 2006 | 9 | 8,514 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,683 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,928 |
| 2009 | 8 | 9,590 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,797 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,551 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,371 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,551 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,418 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,382 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |

## People named Min

- Min Jin Lee, American writer
- Zhang Min, Chinese rower (born 1993)
- Li Min, daughter of Mao Zedong
- Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist
- Zhu Min, Chinese economist
- Zheng Min, Chinese scholar, poet (1920-2022)
- Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, final emperor of the Tang dynasty of China (r. 888-904)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.