Girls' name · since 1940
Menda
Menda has 28 recorded births since 1940 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1940 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #41,873 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 28
- born since 1940
- 1950s
- peak decade
28 girls have been named Menda since 1940, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Menda has 28 recorded births among girls since 1940, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1940 to 1966.
- #41,873 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 28 born since 1940
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Menda ranks #41,873 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 28 born since 1940, peaking in the 1950s.
- #41,873 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 28
- born since 1940
- 1950s
- peak decade
Menda's 28 recorded births place it above 41.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Menda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Menda splits its recorded history at 1955: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1955 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1940 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Menda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1940–1966
- Peak year (1940)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Menda by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (17 births, 61% of the file).
1950s was Menda's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 61% of all-time use.
Menda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 6
1940s
6 births
- 1950s
1950s
17 births
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 17 births (61% of all-time use).
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- Menda's decade-level peak was the 1950s (17 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1960s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Menda: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1940)
Similar record span (~26 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1940–1966 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Menda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.