Mendy
Mendy was last recorded in 2025, when 52 babies were given it; 3,059 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,900 Americans named Mendy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 20 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mendy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mendy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mendy is “a diminutive of the female given name Melinda.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mendy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,706, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
172 babies in 1974, the peak
Mendy peaked in 1974, when 172 girls were given it, #792 among girls’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 52 | #2,557 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 61 | #2,333 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 58 | #2,378 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 60 | #2,369 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 46 | #2,761 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 44 | #2,787 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 37 | #3,171 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 29 | #3,757 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 42 | #2,874 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 34 | #3,339 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 30 | #3,649 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 24 | #4,212 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 30 | #3,553 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 37 | #3,093 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 22 | #4,453 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 19 | #4,964 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,706 | 26 | #3,994 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,400 | 18 | #5,184 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,881 | 25 | #4,080 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,462 | 22 | #4,318 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,256 | 22 | #4,139 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,886 | 13 | #6,019 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 17 | #4,735 | |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,259 | 17 | #4,631 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 13 | #5,562 | |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,642 | 10 | #6,661 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,010 | 10 | #6,339 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,956 | 5 | #10,721 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,156 | 9 | #6,431 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,882 | 6 | #8,627 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,783 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,187 | 6 | #8,425 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,339 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,906 | 9 | #5,968 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,373 | 6 | #7,905 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,286 | 5 | #9,029 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,785 | 5 | #8,785 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,136 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,483 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,720 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,982 | 5 | #7,217 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,501 | 5 | #6,981 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,301 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,173 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,075 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,754 | 5 | #6,914 |
| 1979 | 113 | #1,173 | 9 | #4,277 |
| 1978 | 150 | #945 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 148 | #940 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 133 | #961 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 169 | #813 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 172 | #792 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 134 | #925 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,078 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 108 | #1,109 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,555 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,622 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,965 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,775 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,222 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,097 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,034 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,283 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,507 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,651 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,624 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,372 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,185 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,248 | 6 | #3,829 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,688 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,919 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,534 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mendy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,059 Americans recorded as Mendy, 71% are girls and 29% boys. In 2025 it went to 52 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mendy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mendy, and how old are they?
2,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,059 Americans ever recorded as Mendy. The median Mendy alive today is 48 years old; half are between 20 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 2,591 people named Mendy (1,925 women and girls, 666 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 179 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 366 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 356 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 543 |
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 Mendy born?
The states with the most babies named Mendy are New York, Texas and California, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 665 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 249 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 103 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 89 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 66 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 50 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 50 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 38 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Mendy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mendy is most over-represented in New York: since 1954 it was given 3.0 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 Mendy 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,694 babies since 1880, Mendy is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 52 babies (100%), 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 Mendy
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 Mendy and names like it
- Compare Mendy and MendiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMendy peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mendy since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Mendy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mendy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.