Mindy

Where Mindy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mindy.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Mindy through the years
  1. 1940
    First appearance
    #4,349 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Mindy Sterling born
    American actress
  3. 1979
    Mindy Kaling born
    American actress, writer, and comedian
  4. 1979
    Peak, #81
    3,712 babies named Mindy, the most in any year.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #155.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Melinda and of Miranda.
Namesakes
  • Mindy Kaling · American actress, writer, and comedian, born 1979
  • Mindy Sterling · American actress, born 1953
  • Mindy Cohn · American actress, born 1966
  • Mindy Robinson · American actress, born 1980
  • Mindy Finn · American academic, born 1980

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.