Minda
Minda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 779th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195138 births
- Best rank
- #779in 1888
- Since 1880
- 1,600people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,600 girls have been named Minda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1970s alone account for 19%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Minda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 72 | |
| 1890s | 79 | |
| 1900s | 47 | |
| 1910s | 52 | |
| 1920s | 38 | |
| 1930s | 33 | |
| 1940s | 121 | |
| 1950s | 288 | |
| 1960s | 237 | |
| 1970s | 307 | |
| 1980s | 139 | |
| 1990s | 103 | |
| 2000s | 40 | |
| 2010s | 39 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Minda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Minda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geniepeak 1982
- Carriepeak 1977
- Christenapeak 1975
- Deliapeak 1957
- Theresiapeak 1959
- Mandapeak 1975
- Tenapeak 1962
- Malindapeak 1969
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.