Mindy
Mindy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 81st, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19793,712 births
- Best rank
- #81in 1979
- Since 1940
- 42,540people given the name
The story in the numbers
42,540 girls have been named Mindy in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 3,712 births — 0.23% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 3,712 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 33%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mindy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 85 | |
| 1950s | 4,322 | |
| 1960s | 5,460 | |
| 1970s | 14,022 | |
| 1980s | 12,657 | |
| 1990s | 3,177 | |
| 2000s | 1,395 | |
| 2010s | 969 | |
| 2020s | 453 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Mindy was the 81st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Mindy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kristypeak 1978
- Aprilpeak 1980
- Jamipeak 1977
- Cristypeak 1978
- Jammiepeak 1977
- Shannapeak 1978
- Shaunapeak 1979
- Shenitapeak 1978
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.