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Mindi vs Minta

American parents have registered 4,405 Mindis since 1880, against 1,283 Mintas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mindi Minta

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 135 years in which either name was published, Minta for 72 years and Mindi for 63 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Mindi Minta
Total US births 4,4051,283
Most in one year 31528
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4,100360
Median age today 4863
Peak year 19791921
Best rank 578th girls1,577th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19501880
Girls / boys 4,405 / 01,283 / 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 Mintas alive today are over 63; half the Mindis are over 48. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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