Name meaning & stats
Mindy
Mindy means “sweet, gentle (a coinage)”. 42,682 US babies since 1940, peak 1979.
What it means
“sweet, gentle (a coinage)”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1979
42,682 US babies were named Mindy between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Mindy (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 89% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1979)