Shawndell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shawndell

The Social Security Administration has registered 258 babies named Shawndell between 1970 and 2007, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shawndell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Shawndell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 146 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawndell performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shawndell shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shawndell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawndell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 258 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.