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Min vs Mindi

American parents have registered 4,405 Mindis since 1880, against 638 Mins. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Min against Mindi, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Min Mindi

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

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Mindi for 50 years and Min for 19 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Min Mindi
Total US births 6384,405
Most in one year 30315
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6204,100
Median age today 3248
Peak year 19941979
Best rank 3,326th boys578th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19531950
Girls / boys 243 / 3954,405 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Mindis alive today are over 48; half the Mins are over 32. That is 16 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.

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