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Mindi

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mindi has been given to 4,405 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1979, with 315 recorded.

Babies named Mindi, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mindi: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mindi means

Mindi is a given name.

The naming story behind Mindi

Wikidata records Mindi as a given name. The entity identifier is Q56101282, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,405 girls were recorded with the name Mindi between 1950 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 315 in 1979; its best national rank was #579 in 1979.

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.

How common is Mindi?

Mindi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mindi 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mindi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mindis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mindi was born before 1977 — so the typical Mindi is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,405
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (1,983).

Is Mindi 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (315)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#579
1979

Spellings of Mindi

Mindi is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 66.1% against Mindi's 0.20%.

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 Mindi is used

Across 1910–2025, Mindi was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 54,656 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 5,556
  2. 2Iowa1 in 16,667
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 25,000
  4. 4Idaho1 in 33,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  8. 8Oregon1 in 33,333

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

Notable people named Mindi

People whose public names include Mindi, 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.

Mindi 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
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Best rank ever
#579
1979
Peak year
1979
315 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
4,405
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mindi

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

MinnaMinhaLyndiMandiSandiMinkaMinaMindaMindyMintaAndiLindiMinahCyndiKandiMinervaNandiCandiCindiRandiKendiMinsaMinhMindel

Names with a curve like Mindi

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

ShanonTawannaToyaTawandaShannanChrissyJammieDustyKarieBrianBrittLatricia

Sibling names for Mindi

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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