Mindi
Mindi was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 4,405 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,130 Americans named Mindi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 43 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mindi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mindi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,373, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
315 babies in 1979, the peak
Mindi peaked in 1979, when 315 girls were given it, #579 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,373 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,924 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,926 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,931 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,942 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,134 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,635 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,337 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,487 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,685 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 13 | #8,572 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,504 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,649 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,998 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,256 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,730 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,344 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,407 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,330 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,949 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,743 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,169 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,301 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,886 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,595 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,358 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 109 | #1,253 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 95 | #1,370 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 114 | #1,171 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 119 | #1,128 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 138 | #1,050 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 144 | #1,013 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 214 | #771 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 315 | #579 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 216 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 182 | #826 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 199 | #740 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 202 | #729 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 236 | #647 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 157 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 151 | #858 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 190 | #768 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 135 | #946 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 134 | #919 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 88 | #1,153 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,367 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,441 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 59 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,422 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,176 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,250 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,360 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,469 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,143 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,647 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,856 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mindi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mindi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mindi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mindi, and how old are they?
4,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 4,405 Americans ever recorded as Mindi. The median Mindi alive today is 48 years old; half are between 43 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 4,021 people named Mindi (4,007 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 338 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 168 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Mindi born?
The states with the most babies named Mindi are California, Texas and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 296 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 268 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 249 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Utah | 230 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 172 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 150 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 144 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 130 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 124 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Mindi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mindi is most over-represented in Utah: since 1950 it was given 4.9 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 Mindi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mindi?
Mindi is a less common spelling of Mindy: SSA has recorded 4,405 Mindi and 42,682 Mindy since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 49,782 babies since 1880, Mindi is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Mindi (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 Mindi
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 Mindi and names like it
- Compare Mindi and MindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMindi peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mindi since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Mindi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mindi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.