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Mindy
Say it: MIN-dee
Meaning
A pet form of Melinda, an 18th-century coinage from Greek meli 'honey' and the suffix -inda.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Peaked in the US in the 1970s, around the time of the TV series Mork & Mindy.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States
- 42,236 babies given this name since 1940
- At its height in 1979, about 1 in 433 girls
- 85 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Mindi, Mindie
Famous bearers
- Mindy Kaling, American actress
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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