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Mindi vs Minha

American parents have registered 4,405 Mindis since 1880, against 890 Minhas. But in 2025 it was Minha that was commoner, 114 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mindi Minha

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 76 years in which either name was published, Mindi for 56 years and Minha for 20 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Mindi Minha
Total US births 4,405890
Most in one year 315114
Babies in 2025 under 5114
Estimated living today 4,100890
Median age today 484
Peak year 19792025
Best rank 578th girls1,769th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,769th
First recorded 19501997
Girls / boys 4,405 / 0890 / 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 Minhas are over 4. That is 44 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: Mindi and Minha.