Mandolin

Girl · recorded 1976–2017

  • 2017last recorded
  • 1997best year

Most popular in 1997.

Last recorded in 2017. Fewer than five girls a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Mandolin.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1976

04719761986199720072017

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 26 recorded years as a table
Mandolin, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19763
19775
19783
19794
19823
19884
19893
19905
19933
19943
19957
19963
19977
19995
20013
20023
20033
20046
20053
20064
20085
20094
20114
20123
20153
20174

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Mandolin isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2017
7
Rank in 2017
#12,713
How rare
1 in 246,637 girls
Since 1976
186

Mandolin was last recorded in 2017. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1997, at 7 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Mandolin doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.