Minoru
Minoru is a boy's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 991st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1939. About 14 Minorus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 90.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Minoru
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 675
- Estimated living today
- 14
- Median age today
- 90
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 991st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Minorus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 675 babies given the name since 1912, about 14 are alive — 2 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1935 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Minorus
- Minoru Kobata (born 1946)Japanese association football player
- Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986)American architect
- Minoru Genda (1904–1989)Japanese politician, Imperial Japanese Navy officer and JSDAF general
- Minoru Suganuma (born 1985)Japanese association football player
- Minoru Kushibiki (born 1967)Japanese association football player
- Minoru Kobayashi (born 1976)Japanese association football player and manager
- Minoru Takenaka (born 1976)Japanese association football player and manager
- Minoru Ōta (1891–1945)admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
People named Minoru with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Minoru is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Minoru is most concentrated in Hawaii (151.7×), California (5.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Minoru peaked:
Minoru among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Minoru | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Minoru against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.