girls:
42.4k births since 1880
#655 (89th percentile)
boys:
138 births since 1962
#4448 (3rd percentile)
overall:
42.5k births since 1880
#1197 (85th percentile)
The name Mandy is the #1,197 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 42,535 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #655 (88.6% percentile) for all time with 42,397 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,448 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 138 births since 1962.
Mandy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1962 for boys).
The name Mandy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mandy reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 87.9% percentile (ranked #94) with 1,884 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 1,892 births per million (ranked 87.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mandy ranks #914 for girls (3.5% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mandy reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #667) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mandy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mandy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mandy is pronounced as MAN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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