Mendi
Mendi was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 514 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mendi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mendi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,700, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1975, the peak
Mendi peaked in 1975, when 49 girls were given it, #1,865 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #14,700 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,348 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,323 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,241 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,876 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,777 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,199 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,950 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,939 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,772 | 19.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 37 | #2,412 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,596 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,525 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,865 | 33.6 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,869 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,290 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,715 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,320 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,386 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,070 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,263 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,979 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,308 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,627 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,760 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mendi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mendi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mendi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mendi, and how old are they?
An estimated 483 Americans named Mendi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 47 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 544 people named Mendi (515 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 491 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Mendi?
Mendi is a less common spelling of Mendy: SSA has recorded 514 Mendi and 3,059 Mendy since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,694 babies since 1880, Mendi is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Mendi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Mendi
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 Mendi and names like it
- Compare Mendi and MendyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMendi peaked in 1975.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mendi since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Mendi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mendi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.