Baby name
REVIVING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Minnie
/MIN · ee/
Meaning
“Resolute protector”
English pet form of Wilhelmina, Mary, or Minerva; globally associated with Disney's Minnie Mouse, which gives it cheerful pop-culture permanence.
Nicknames
min
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Irresistibly sweet and vintage; the Disney association is a feature, not a bug, for most parents.
The cultural moment.
Rising in the UK since 2010 as part of the vintage-nickname revival; top 100 by 2020.