Shandell
Shandell was last recorded in 2003, when 8 babies were given it; 594 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shandell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shandell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,217, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1991, the peak
Shandell peaked in 1991, when 57 babies were given it (52 girls, #2,437 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 8 | #12,217 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,089 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,509 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,357 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,152 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,663 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,492 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,982 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,027 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,151 | 6 | #8,531 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 20 | #5,008 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,437 | 5 | #9,401 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,793 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,089 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,666 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,870 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,312 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,298 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,922 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,086 | 7 | #5,390 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,148 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,919 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,186 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,696 | 5 | #6,920 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,640 | 10 | #3,810 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,882 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,793 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,488 | 5 | #6,194 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,667 | 9 | #3,780 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,732 | 6 | #4,982 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,388 | 9 | #3,564 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,909 | 6 | #4,827 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,687 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,590 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,962 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shandell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 594 Americans recorded as Shandell, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shandell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shandell, and how old are they?
An estimated 567 Americans named Shandell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 537 people named Shandell (456 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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, Shandell is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Shandell (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 Shandell
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 Shandell and names like it
- Compare Shandell and ShaindelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShandell peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shandell since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shandell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shandell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.