Mendy
Mendy reached its high-water mark in 1974 at number 792, and has been recorded 3,059 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 2,900 Mendys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mendy boys named Mendy
Girls and boys called Mendy
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Mendy crossed from girls to boys in 2002, and has stayed there for 19 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 42 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,059
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 792nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1954
- Girls / boys
- 2,160 / 899
How old the living Mendys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,059 babies given the name since 1954, about 2,900 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 680 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Mendy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mendy is most concentrated in New York (5.1×), Missouri (2.7×), Oklahoma (2.2×), Texas (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular girls’ names the year Mendy peaked:
Mendy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Mendy | 760 | 1,143rd |
| France boys | Mendy | 470 | 859th |
| England and Wales boys | Mendy | 88 | 2,018th |
| Belgium girls | Mendy | 10 | 1,101st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Mendy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.