Shandel
Shandel was last recorded in 2002, when 12 babies were given it; 375 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shandel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shandel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,381, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1991, the peak
Shandel peaked in 1991, when 48 girls were given it, #2,578 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #13,381 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,469 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,155 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,641 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,411 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,932 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,384 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,205 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,578 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,792 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 18 | #5,009 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,018 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,559 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,407 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,437 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,305 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,843 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,147 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,283 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,905 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,955 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,883 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,769 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,482 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,357 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,281 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,540 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,053 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,295 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,077 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shandel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 375 Americans recorded as Shandel, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shandel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shandel, and how old are they?
An estimated 361 Americans named Shandel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 34 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 421 people named Shandel (366 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,923 babies since 1880, Shandel is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Shandel (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shandel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shandel and names like it
- Compare Shandel and ShaindelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShandel peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shandel since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shandel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shandel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.