Mandy
Mandy was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,513 among girls’ names; 42,603 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 37,100 Americans named Mandy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 40 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mandy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mandy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mandy is “a diminutive of the female given name Amanda, popular as a formal given name in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Apheretic form of Amanda + -y.
/ˈmændi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mandy?
#4,513 among girls’ names, 2025
Mandy fell from #2,579 in 2015 to #4,513 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 19.3 per million.
3,124 babies in 1978, the peak
Mandy peaked in 1978, when 3,124 babies were given it (3,110 girls, #96 among girls’ names). The 31 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,513 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,175 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,884 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,575 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,981 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,720 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,701 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,669 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,451 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,300 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,579 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,916 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,251 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,950 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,963 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,920 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 149 | #1,526 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 147 | #1,568 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 227 | #1,134 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 242 | #1,059 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 270 | #922 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 291 | #846 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 246 | #953 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 239 | #937 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 234 | #946 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 216 | #983 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 223 | #939 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 159 | #1,174 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 240 | #853 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 264 | #789 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 251 | #792 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 275 | #756 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 338 | #660 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 351 | #645 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 416 | #562 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 526 | #465 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 585 | #424 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 796 | #312 | 0.45 |
| 1987 | 958 | #264 | 0.55 |
| 1986 | 1,057 | #246 | 0.62 |
| 1985 | 1,268 | #206 | 0.74 |
| 1984 | 1,094 | #233 | 0.65 |
| 1983 | 1,344 | #198 | 0.80 |
| 1982 | 1,714 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 2,088 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 1980 | 2,231 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 1979 | 2,720 | #116 | 1.7 |
| 1978 | 3,110 | #96 | 2.0 |
| 1977 | 3,100 | #94 | 2.0 |
| 1976 | 2,924 | #100 | 2.0 |
| 1975 | 2,710 | #106 | 1.9 |
| 1974 | 446 | #435 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 385 | #472 | 0.26 |
| 1972 | 322 | #528 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 294 | #593 | 0.18 |
| 1970 | 233 | #682 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 215 | #678 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 225 | #647 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 196 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 193 | #707 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 185 | #733 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 233 | #669 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 175 | #785 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 180 | #777 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 147 | #885 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 147 | #856 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 146 | #845 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 127 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 141 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 91 | #1,079 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 39 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,442 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,480 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,177 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 44 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 51 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 60 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 61 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 54 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 47 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 72 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 90 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 84 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 98 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 77 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 91 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 89 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 103 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 89 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 100 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 111 | #683 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 79 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 97 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 83 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 89 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 52 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 61 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 59 | #552 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 72 | #477 | 0.18 |
| 1909 | 61 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1908 | 48 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 51 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1906 | 50 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 67 | #417 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 51 | #459 | 0.19 |
| 1903 | 52 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1902 | 51 | #438 | 0.19 |
| 1901 | 54 | #408 | 0.23 |
| 1900 | 76 | #385 | 0.25 |
| 1899 | 43 | #447 | 0.18 |
| 1898 | 50 | #435 | 0.19 |
| 1897 | 36 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 53 | #389 | 0.22 |
| 1895 | 52 | #392 | 0.22 |
| 1894 | 56 | #374 | 0.25 |
| 1893 | 50 | #384 | 0.23 |
| 1892 | 56 | #356 | 0.26 |
| 1891 | 46 | #370 | 0.25 |
| 1890 | 48 | #365 | 0.25 |
| 1889 | 44 | #366 | 0.25 |
| 1888 | 58 | #315 | 0.32 |
| 1887 | 37 | #357 | 0.25 |
| 1886 | 69 | #250 | 0.48 |
| 1885 | 55 | #270 | 0.41 |
| 1884 | 40 | #311 | 0.31 |
| 1883 | 35 | #298 | 0.31 |
| 1882 | 41 | #275 | 0.38 |
| 1881 | 40 | #255 | 0.44 |
| 1880 | 34 | #269 | 0.37 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mandy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mandy has been given almost only to girls: 138 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mandy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mandy, and how old are they?
37,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 42,603 Americans ever recorded as Mandy. The median Mandy alive today is 46 years old; half are between 40 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 38,680 people named Mandy (38,429 women and girls, 251 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 240 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,470 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 765 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mandy born?
The states with the most babies named Mandy are Texas, California and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 3,653 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 3,242 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 2,012 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,779 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,573 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 1,526 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 1,480 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 1,255 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 1,229 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 1,194 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Mandy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mandy is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mandy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 59,634 babies since 1880, Mandy is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 38 babies (82%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mandy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mandy and names like it
- Compare Mandy and MandiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMandy peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mandy since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Mandy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mandy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.