Mindy is a diminutive of Melinda — from the Greek meli (honey) + linda (pretty). Mindy Kaling (born 1979) — born Vera Mindy Chokalingam — American comedian, writer, and producer who became the first woman of color and first South Asian woman to write, star in, and produce her own US network television comedy (The Mindy Project, 2012-2017). *Sole female writer on The Office during its first season at age 24 (later promoted to executive producer and writer-actor). 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***.
Subject of Mindy Kaling: A Working Mother's Guide to Hollywood (2023 documentary).
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.