How rare is the name Mindi?

4,021 people in the United States have the first name Mindi, about 1 in 75,114. It ranks #4,577 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MINDI

#4,577

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,021
About
1 in 75,114
This common or more
84.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,021 people named Mindi, 89.7% reported their origin as White, 4% as Hispanic or Latino and 2.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mindi peaked in 1979, when 315 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502014
Peak year
1979
Births that year
315
In 2014
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,405 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Mindi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,316. The largest share of babies named Mindi, 59.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#4,350168
1960s#2,255642
1970s#1,3161,983
1980s#1,9851,186
1990s#6,162292
2000s#16,37799
2010s#28,16835
Baby boom 1946–649.2%
Generation X 1965–8059.1%
Millennials 1981–9627.6%
Generation Z 1997–123.9%
2013 and later0.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mindi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mindi has been most common in Utah (11×), Iowa (3.8×), and Nebraska (2.5×), and least common in Florida (0.6×).

2,414 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Mindi

1 other first name also has 4,021 people.

#4,577 Sueann · 4,021

Either side of Mindi

#4,575 Hawa · 4,022#4,575 Stanton · 4,022#4,577 Sueann · 4,021#4,579 Conrado · 4,020

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mindi, most common first.

#1,056 Mindy · 39,640#7,635 Minda · 1,979#21,023 Mindie · 487

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