Given name
Minoru
“to bear fruit”
Minoru is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “to bear fruit.”
Original Japanese美能留
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “to bear fruit.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Minoru through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 675
- 675 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 50 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 11 in 1939. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 369 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Minoru’s family of names
Minoru has a related form in Minoroo. Minoru has a related form in Minorou. Minoru has a related form in Minorue.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Minoru
- Minoru KobataJapanese association football playerborn 1946
- Minoru YamasakiAmerican architect (1912–1986)
- Minoru GendaJapanese politician, Imperial Japanese Navy officer and JSDAF general (1904–1989)
- Minoru SuganumaJapanese association football playerborn 1985
- Minoru KushibikiJapanese association football playerborn 1967
- Minoru KobayashiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1976
- Minoru TakenakaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1976
- Minoru Ōtaadmiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy1891–1945
- Minoru HondaJapanese astronomer (1913–1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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