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

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Peak · girls
1974 · 172 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,160
since 1954

Mendy over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201954peak #792, 1974girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#2,53952
2024—#2,31361
2023—#2,36258
2022—#2,35560
2021—#2,73246
2020—#2,75944
2019—#3,14337
2018—#3,70829
2017—#2,84042
2016—#3,29334
2015—#3,59130
2014—#4,13824
2013—#3,49730
2012—#3,05937
2011—#4,35622
2010—#4,84819
2009#13,7047#3,91926
2008#12,5798#5,06718
2007#15,4916#4,01125
2006#15,1526#4,22322
2005#16,4625#4,06222
2004#16,0995#5,81313
2003—#4,61617
2002#8,83711#4,50217
2001—#5,39013
2000#9,16310#6,31610
1999#14,4115#6,04210
1998#11,1387#9,6315
1997#12,0706#6,1009
1996#11,8076#7,9716
1995#11,7836—
1994#9,5868#7,7706
1993#10,5887—
1992#6,65213#5,6609
1991#7,98710#7,2716
1990#7,88010#8,1175
1989#4,67019#7,9055
1988#5,89513—
1987#3,42426—
1986#3,64523—
1985#2,93931#6,5235
1984#2,47038#6,3155
1983#3,24225—
1982#2,15047—
1981#2,06150—
1980#1,74963#6,2505
1979#1,169113#4,0689
1978#939150—
1977#936148—
1976#956133—
1975#809169—
1974#792172—
1973#917134—
1972#1,073107—
1971#1,103108—
1970#1,54463—
1969#1,60955—
1968#1,94038—
1967#1,75143—
1966#3,14816—
1965#2,06432—
1964#2,01135—
1963#2,25228—
1962#2,46324—
1961#2,60822—
1960#3,51213—
1959#3,25414—
1958#3,08515—
1957#3,15014#3,5526
1956#2,62219—
1955#2,83916—
1954#4,2788—
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First appearance
1954

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.

Where Mendy is popular in 1954

No state had 5 or more girls named Mendy in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Mendy
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1954
  • Peaked 1974 at #792 (172 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1973–1978
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,532
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 60.0% of all girls named Mendy (1,297) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2001
  • Mostly girls until 2000, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s86#2,622 (1956)#3,205
1960s306#1,609 (1969)#2,336
1970s1,297#792 (1974)#1,024
1980s335#1,749 (1980)#3,225
1990s78#6,652 (1992)#10,390
2000s58#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 1954

girls
#4,278
8 births · 1 in 242,739 girls

Top girls' names in 1954

  1. #1Mary68,019
  2. #2Linda55,371
  3. #3Deborah54,674
  4. #4Patricia49,149
  5. #5Susan47,162
  6. #6Debra45,896
  7. #7Barbara36,368
  8. #8Karen32,456
  9. #9Nancy30,270
  10. #10Cynthia27,615
  11. #4,278Mendy8
More about 1954

girls

1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 242,739 of them was named Mendy, which outranked 35.4% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mendy
  1. #3,967Winda9
  2. #3,967Wyona9
  3. #3,967Zelinda9
  4. #4,278Mendy8
  5. #4,278Adonna8
  6. #4,278Adriene8
  7. #4,278Alaina8
  8. #4,655Aaron7
  9. #4,655Adonica7
  10. #4,655Aide7

Tied with 376 names at #4,278; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1953
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,699Sherree#2,699 → #1,000
  2. ↑ 1,434Sabrina#2,236 → #802
  3. ↑ 932Valinda#1,738 → #806
  4. ↑ 748Sheree#1,071 → #323
  5. ↑ 421Sherie#1,248 → #827
Fallers
  1. ↓ 396Enola#948 → #1,344
  2. ↓ 311Ila#782 → #1,093
  3. ↓ 302Nancie#816 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 282Arline#904 → #1,186
  5. ↓ 269Candyce#944 → #1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1954 →