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Mandee vs Mandi

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 887 Mandees. Mandi is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mandee against Mandi, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mandee Mandi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mandi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Mandee had 16 and Mandi had 65.

Side by side

  Mandee Mandi
Total US births 88710,025
Most in one year 74697
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 8609,600
Median age today 4243
Peak year 19751977
Best rank 1,415th girls334th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19661957
Girls / boys 887 / 010,025 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mandee and Mandi.