Mindi
4,405 recorded births · active 1950–2014
Compare Mindi →Living-age distribution
The median living Mindi is 49. If you meet a Mindi, there's about a 70% chance they're between 39 and 57 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Mindi: 1979. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Mindi is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Mindi ranks #4,571 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Mindis are 1.0x more common in the West than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Mindi's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Mindi's modeled peak was #1,038 in 1979 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Mindi hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2014 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Mindi isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Mindi enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.