Shondell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shondell

The Social Security Administration has registered 262 babies named Shondell between 1969 and 2008, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shondell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Shondell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 237 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shondell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 146 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shondell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shondell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shondell 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 262 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.