Mahinda
Origin
Sinhala
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“Pali form of Sanskrit Mahendra, great Indra; famously borne by the monk Mahinda who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka in the third century BCE”
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mahinda has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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