Meaning not yet researched.
Mindy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 75 in 2025. Its best rank was #81 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #81 in 1979; #2,401 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mindy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,401 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #81.
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Mindy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 75 girls in 2025. Peak: #81 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 3,712 (1979).
In 2025, 75 US girls were named Mindy, making it the 2,401st most common girls’ name of the year, down 413 places from #1,988 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 99 girls named Mindy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #81, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,712. For comparison, it was #2,369 in 2015 and #772 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mindy in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 42,682 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 14,061 babies named Mindy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 894 US girls were named Mindy; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mindy ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #447 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mindi (4,405 babies since 1880) and Mendy (3,059 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mendi, Mindie and Mindee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mendi (514), Mindie (487), Mindee (486), Myndi (122).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mindy in the open dataset we use.
Mindy is listed as a nickname for Melinda.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 39 | #447 | #775 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #699 | #697 |
| California | 6 | #2,999 | #1,894 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2002 | 141 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2000 | 172 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1999 | 188 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1998 | 186 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1997 | 216 | #922 | — | — |
| 1996 | 251 | #812 | — | — |
| 1995 | 239 | #824 | — | — |
| 1994 | 274 | #759 | — | — |
| 1993 | 330 | #666 | — | — |
| 1992 | 414 | #565 | — | — |
| 1991 | 477 | #498 | — | — |
| 1990 | 602 | #421 | — | — |
| 1989 | 711 | #360 | — | — |
| 1988 | 821 | #301 | — | — |
| 1987 | 957 | #265 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,072 | #244 | 9 | #4,721 |
| 1985 | 1,116 | #232 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,347 | #199 | — | — |
| 1983 | 1,222 | #207 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,322 | #206 | 5 | #7,024 |
| 1981 | 1,827 | #155 | 7 | #5,295 |
| 1980 | 2,262 | #131 | 7 | #5,314 |
| 1979 | 3,712 | #81 | 10 | #3,983 |
| 1978 | 1,593 | #170 | 10 | #3,765 |
| 1977 | 1,235 | #205 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,166 | #210 | 8 | #4,277 |
| 1975 | 1,308 | #192 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,313 | #194 | 6 | #5,039 |
| 1973 | 1,117 | #228 | — | — |
| 1972 | 862 | #292 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,010 | #284 | 5 | #5,402 |
| 1970 | 706 | #354 | — | — |
| 1969 | 648 | #357 | — | — |
| 1968 | 581 | #381 | — | — |
| 1967 | 496 | #419 | — | — |
| 1966 | 474 | #429 | — | — |
| 1965 | 451 | #449 | — | — |
| 1964 | 540 | #420 | — | — |
| 1963 | 561 | #404 | — | — |
| 1962 | 583 | #394 | — | — |
| 1961 | 536 | #425 | — | — |
| 1960 | 590 | #391 | — | — |
| 1959 | 560 | #397 | — | — |
| 1958 | 588 | #377 | — | — |
| 1957 | 599 | #371 | — | — |
| 1956 | 546 | #380 | — | — |
| 1955 | 508 | #390 | — | — |
| 1954 | 439 | #413 | — | — |
| 1953 | 385 | #441 | — | — |
| 1952 | 265 | #519 | — | — |
| 1951 | 306 | #476 | — | — |
| 1950 | 126 | #772 | — | — |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,466 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,394 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,864 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,835 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).