Mindy
Mindy was given to 75 girls in 2025, #2,401 among girls’ names; 42,682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 39,800 Americans named Mindy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 41 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mindy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mindy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mindy is “a diminutive of the female given name Melinda and of Miranda.”
/ˈmɪndi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mindy?
#2,401 among girls’ names, 2025
Mindy fell from #2,369 in 2015 to #2,401 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 46.7 per million.
3,722 babies in 1979, the peak
Mindy peaked in 1979, when 3,722 babies were given it (3,712 girls, #81 among girls’ names). The 75 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,401 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,988 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,800 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,335 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,410 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,130 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,008 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,006 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,278 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,164 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,369 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,975 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,897 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,935 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,935 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,813 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,804 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,813 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,766 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,594 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,460 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,569 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,406 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 141 | #1,372 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,198 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 172 | #1,166 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 188 | #1,068 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 186 | #1,057 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 216 | #921 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 251 | #812 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 239 | #823 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 274 | #758 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 330 | #666 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 414 | #565 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 477 | #498 | 0.25 |
| 1990 | 602 | #421 | 0.32 |
| 1989 | 711 | #360 | 0.39 |
| 1988 | 821 | #301 | 0.46 |
| 1987 | 957 | #265 | 0.55 |
| 1986 | 1,072 | #244 | 0.62 |
| 1985 | 1,116 | #232 | 0.65 |
| 1984 | 1,347 | #199 | 0.80 |
| 1983 | 1,222 | #207 | 0.73 |
| 1982 | 1,322 | #206 | 0.78 |
| 1981 | 1,827 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 2,262 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1979 | 3,712 | #81 | 2.3 |
| 1978 | 1,593 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 1977 | 1,235 | #205 | 0.81 |
| 1976 | 1,166 | #210 | 0.80 |
| 1975 | 1,308 | #192 | 0.90 |
| 1974 | 1,313 | #194 | 0.89 |
| 1973 | 1,117 | #228 | 0.77 |
| 1972 | 862 | #292 | 0.57 |
| 1971 | 1,010 | #284 | 0.61 |
| 1970 | 706 | #354 | 0.40 |
| 1969 | 648 | #357 | 0.38 |
| 1968 | 581 | #381 | 0.35 |
| 1967 | 496 | #419 | 0.30 |
| 1966 | 474 | #429 | 0.28 |
| 1965 | 451 | #449 | 0.26 |
| 1964 | 540 | #420 | 0.28 |
| 1963 | 561 | #404 | 0.29 |
| 1962 | 583 | #394 | 0.30 |
| 1961 | 536 | #425 | 0.27 |
| 1960 | 590 | #391 | 0.29 |
| 1959 | 560 | #397 | 0.28 |
| 1958 | 588 | #377 | 0.29 |
| 1957 | 599 | #371 | 0.29 |
| 1956 | 546 | #380 | 0.27 |
| 1955 | 508 | #389 | 0.26 |
| 1954 | 439 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1953 | 385 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1952 | 265 | #518 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 306 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1950 | 126 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,927 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,411 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,833 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mindy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mindy has been given almost only to girls: 67 boys in 85 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mindy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mindy, and how old are they?
39,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 42,682 Americans ever recorded as Mindy. The median Mindy alive today is 47 years old; half are between 41 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 39,640 people named Mindy (39,598 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,880 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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 Mindy born?
The states with the most babies named Mindy are New York, California and Ohio, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 4,717 | #447 | 1.5× |
| California | 3,615 | #2,999 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 2,905 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 2,864 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,981 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,841 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,490 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 1,410 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Utah | 1,287 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Iowa | 1,199 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Mindy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mindy is most over-represented in Utah: since 1940 it was given 2.8 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 Mindy 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 49,782 babies since 1880, Mindy is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 75 of their 75 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 Mindy
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 Mindy and names like it
- Compare Mindy and MindiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMindy peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mindy since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Mindy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mindy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.