Mindy is a diminutive of Melinda — from the Greek meli (honey) + linda (pretty). Author of two bestselling memoirs (Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, 2011; Why Not Me?, 2015) and creator of Never Have I Ever (Netflix, 2020-2023). Three Emmy nominations for The Office.
Mindy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mindy reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.