Mindel
Mindel was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,764 among girls’ names; 272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mindel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mindel?
#7,764 among girls’ names, 2025
Mindel rose from #12,635 in 2015 to #7,764 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 8.7 per million.
16 babies in 2022, the peak
Mindel peaked in 2022, when 16 girls were given it, #7,189 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,764 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,278 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,346 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,189 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,892 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,032 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,086 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,376 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,480 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,252 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,635 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,690 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,024 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,533 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,669 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,986 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,732 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,525 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,381 | 5.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,322 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,385 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,250 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,859 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,046 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,185 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,045 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,805 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,435 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,818 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,270 | 3.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,899 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,011 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mindel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mindel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mindel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mindel, and how old are they?
An estimated 269 Americans named Mindel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 254 people named Mindel (243 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mindel
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 Mindel and names like it
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