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Minda

Girls' name

Diminutive of Melinda

Minda has been given to 1,600 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1951, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Minda, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Minda: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Melinda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Minda means

Minda is a diminutive of Melinda.

Origin, language, and formation

Minda is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melinda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,600 girls were recorded with the name Minda between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1951; its best national rank was #779 in 1888.

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 Minda?

Minda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Minda 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Minda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Minda was born before 1963 — so the typical Minda is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,158
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1970s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (307).

Is Minda 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 1951 (38)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#779
1888

Spellings of Minda

Minda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 29.2% against Minda's 0.03%.

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 Minda is used

Across 1910–2025, Minda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,044,565 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Oregon1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Minda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Minda 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
#779
1888
Peak year
1951
38 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,600
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Minda

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

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Sibling names for Minda

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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