Mindi

Where Mindi comes from

Mindi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #5,301 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Mindi Mink born
    American pornographic actress
  3. 1969
    Mindi Abair born
    American smooth jazz saxophonist
  4. 1979
    Peak, #578
    315 babies named Mindi — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,009.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mindi Abair · American smooth jazz saxophonist, born 1969
  • Mindi Mink · American pornographic actress, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.