Mendell
Mendell was last recorded in 1978, when 6 babies were given it; 82 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mendell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mendell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,535, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1927, the peak
Mendell peaked in 1927, when 7 boys were given it, #3,677 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 | #5,535 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,597 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,005 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,605 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,198 | 2.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,260 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,427 | 2.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,380 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,779 | 4.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,354 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 5 | #4,531 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,677 | 6.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,663 | 4.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,692 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,137 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mendell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mendell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mendell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mendell, and how old are they?
An estimated 36 Americans named Mendell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 131 people named Mendell (13 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Mendell?
Mendell is a less common spelling of Mendel: SSA has recorded 82 Mendell and 2,942 Mendel since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,024 babies since 1880, Mendell is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 86 babies recorded by SSA was a Mendell (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Mendell and names like it
- Compare Mendell and MendelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMendell peaked in 1927.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Mendell.
- Names starting with MMost given first.