Minda
Minda was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,600 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Minda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 44 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Minda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Minda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Minda is “a female given name.”
Diminutive of Melinda.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Minda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,819, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1951, the peak
Minda peaked in 1951, when 38 girls were given it, #1,547 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,819 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,322 | 5.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,792 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,161 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,853 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,483 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,269 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,961 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,633 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,377 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,503 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,167 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,846 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,795 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,688 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,187 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,439 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,154 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,358 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,470 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,678 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,807 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,958 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,498 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,210 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,565 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,649 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,533 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,649 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,274 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,683 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,833 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,913 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,234 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,325 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,786 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,593 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,334 | 22.6 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,798 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,231 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,145 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,682 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,764 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,611 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,333 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,218 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,287 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,235 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,121 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,584 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,352 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,209 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,010 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,100 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,088 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,867 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,168 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,958 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,733 | 17.8 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,547 | 21.1 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,782 | 16.9 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,483 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,229 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,262 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,159 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,063 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,589 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,718 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,137 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,984 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,744 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,731 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,783 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,717 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,082 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,695 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,665 | 5.0 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,415 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,164 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,786 | 4.9 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,309 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,903 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,784 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,647 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,601 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,962 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,056 | 9.1 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,718 | 11.2 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,384 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,321 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,442 | 28.8 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,392 | 30.5 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,077 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,958 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,112 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,521 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,252 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,237 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,348 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,182 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,388 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,044 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,385 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,064 | 42.4 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,068 | 43.1 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,299 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 12 | #783 | 67.3 |
| 1888 | 12 | #779 | 67.2 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,006 | 48.0 |
| 1886 | 9 | #810 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,151 | 37.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,115 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 6 | #890 | 53.4 |
| 1882 | 5 | #994 | 46.4 |
| 1881 | 5 | #910 | 54.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #812 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Minda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Minda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 116 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Minda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Minda, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 1,600 Americans ever recorded as Minda. The median Minda alive today is 55 years old; half are between 44 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,979 people named Minda (1,946 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 375 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 411 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 69 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 49,782 babies since 1880, Minda is the third most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Minda (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 Minda
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 Minda and names like it
- Compare Minda and MindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMinda peaked in 1951.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Minda since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Minda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Minda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.