Mendy
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #13,704 · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to girls 70.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 172 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,160since 1954
Mendy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,539 | 52 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,313 | 61 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,362 | 58 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,355 | 60 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,732 | 46 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,143 | 37 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,708 | 29 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,293 | 34 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,591 | 30 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,138 | 24 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,497 | 30 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,059 | 37 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,356 | 22 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,848 | 19 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,939 | 31 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,061 | 50 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,749 | 63 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,169 | 113 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #939 | 150 | — | |
| 1977 | #936 | 148 | — | |
| 1976 | #956 | 133 | — | |
| 1975 | #809 | 169 | — | |
| 1974 | #792 | 172 | — | |
| 1973 | #917 | 134 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,073 | 107 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,103 | 108 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,544 | 63 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,609 | 55 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,940 | 38 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,751 | 43 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,064 | 32 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,011 | 35 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,252 | 28 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,463 | 24 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,608 | 22 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,150 | 14 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mendy! It came in at #4,278, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mendy
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2009
- Biggest jump: 156 spots in 1973 (#1,073 → #917)
- Biggest drop: 230 spots in 1979 (#939 → #1,169)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1974 at #792 (172 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1973–1978
- Highest: 1 in 8,532 girls born in 1974 were named Mendy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 262,445 girls born in 2009 (0.00%)
- 60.0% of all girls named Mendy (1,297) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2000, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 86 | #2,622 (1956) | #3,205 |
| 1960s | 306 | #1,609 (1969) | #2,336 |
| 1970s | 1,297 | #792 (1974) | #1,024 |
| 1980s | 335 | #1,749 (1980) | #3,225 |
| 1990s | 78 | #6,652 (1992) | #10,390 |
| 2000s | 58 | #8,837 (2002) | #13,436 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mendy in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 8,626 of them was named Mendy, which outranked 92.4% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #804Mellissa171
- #807Eunice170
- #807Tawanna170
- #809Mendy169
- #809Aileen169
- #809Deann169
- #809Deidra169
- #815Anissa168
- #815Nanette168
- #815Niki168
Tied with 5 names at #809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.