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Mendy

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Diminutive of Melinda

Mendy has been given to 3,059 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1974, with 172 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% girls, 29% boys all-time.

Babies named Mendy, 2009

1 in 546,000

Mendy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Mendy over time

In 2025, Mendy went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19542025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Mendy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Melinda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mendy means

Mendy is a diminutive of Melinda.

Origin, language, and formation

Mendy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melinda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,160 girls were recorded with the name Mendy between 1954 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 172 in 1974; its best national rank was #792 in 1974.

In the United States, 899 boys were recorded with the name Mendy between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,333 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,787 in 2020 to #2,557 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,649 in 2015 to #2,557 in 2025.

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 Mendy?

Mendy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 546,000
7 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 262,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
378,293 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mendy 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 2009 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 378,293 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mendy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mendys were born

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

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (1,297).

Is Mendy 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (172)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#792
1974

Spellings of Mendy

Mendy is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 22.8% against Mendy's 0.19%.

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 Mendy is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Mendy was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 106,001 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 33,333
  2. 2Indiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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. Mendy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Mendy is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Mendy was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 27,016 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mendy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mendy around the world

Where Mendy 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
    1981–2025
    #4,084
    in 2025

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

Notable people named Mendy

People whose public names include Mendy, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mendy 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
#792
1974
Peak year
1974
172 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
2,160
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,557
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 230
Best rank ever
#2,333
2024
Peak year
2024
61 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
899
Count in 2025
52

Names similar to Mendy

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

MenaHindySindyIndyWindyKandyMennaAndyLindyMendiKendyMenuchaLyndyShaindyCyndyTandyMennieRandyGlendyHendyCandyBreindySendyMandy

Names with a curve like Mendy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mendy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TarshaTamikoLatrinaTennilleBuffyKizzyTomikaAnitraShawndaTawandaConsuelaKarey

Sibling names for Mendy

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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