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Basically means "I wanted you", derived from Georgian მინდია (mindia) or მინდოდა (mindoda) meaning "I wanted". This name literally refers to the fact that the child in question was desired by its parents.

Mindia is the name of a character from Khevsur folklore, whose story the Georgian poet Luka Razikashvili (1861-1915; better known under the pseudonym of Vazha-Pshavela) used as the basis for his poem Snake-Eater (1901). In turn, the Georgian composer Otar Taktakishvili (1924-1989) later used the poem as the basis for his opera Mindia (1961).

Notable Georgian bearers of this name include the politician Mindia Janelidze (b. 1978) and the composer Mindia Khitarishvili (b. 1973).