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Mendi

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mendi has been given to 514 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Mendi, 1992

1 in 768,000

Mendi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mendi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mendi means

Mendi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mendi is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 514 girls were recorded with the name Mendi between 1962 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 49 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,865 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mendi?

Mendi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mendi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mendi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mendis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mendi was born before 1975 — so the typical Mendi is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
514
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (343).

Is Mendi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (49)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,865
1975

Spellings of Mendi

Mendi is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 39.2% against Mendi's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mendi is used

Across 1910–2025, Mendi was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 600,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mendi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mendi around the world

Where Mendi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2013–2013
    #6,652
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Mendi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,865
1975
Peak year
1975
49 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
514
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mendi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MennaBindiKendiMenuchaNandiMenaLindiFendiMennieErandiIndiLyndiWindiRondiTandiSindiMendyDondiMenaalSyndiMendeSundiWyndiJandi

Sibling names for Mendi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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