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Mandi vs Manpreet

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 541 Manpreets. Mandi is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mandi Manpreet

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 1997, when Mandi had 83 and Manpreet had 37.

Side by side

  Mandi Manpreet
Total US births 10,025541
Most in one year 69738
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 9,600530
Median age today 4329
Peak year 19771994
Best rank 334th girls3,892nd girls
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 19571976
Girls / boys 10,025 / 0338 / 203

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Mandis alive today are over 43; half the Manpreets are over 29. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mandi Manpreet
Scotland 93

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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