Girls' name · since 1973
Mende
61 babies named Mende in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 61
- total births
- 1973–1977
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Mende sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 61 recorded since 1973.
Mende has 61 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 1977.
- 61 total births
- 1973–1977 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mende's 61 recorded births place it above 55% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mende's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mende splits its recorded history at 1975: 61% of all births land in the more recent half, 39% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1976 (6 births) -- compare that against the 1975 peak of 24 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mende popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1977
- Peak year (1975)
- 24
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Mende by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Mende's strongest decade.
61 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Mende births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
61 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 61 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1973–1977 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mende: Baby Name Since 1973 - 61 Births, Peak 1975." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mende. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Mende 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 July 2026.