Windell
Windell was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,619 among boys’ names; 3,027 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Windell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 50 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Windell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Windell?
#10,619 among boys’ names, 2025
Windell entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,619 in 2025.
121 babies in 1940, the peak
Windell peaked in 1940, when 121 babies were given it (116 boys, #549 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,619 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #12,166 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,732 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #12,066 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,140 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,475 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,496 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,614 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,498 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | #6,291 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,627 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,961 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,341 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,596 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,157 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,340 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,319 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,224 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,786 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,697 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 31 | #1,425 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 30 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,235 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,162 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,094 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,079 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,135 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 66 | #948 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 63 | #962 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,099 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,024 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 62 | #969 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,030 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,111 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,018 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 56 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 57 | #951 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 53 | #970 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 53 | #958 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 56 | #933 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 55 | #943 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,078 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 50 | #951 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,035 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 46 | #962 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 72 | #772 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 72 | #759 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 117 | #557 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 116 | #549 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 53 | #845 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 45 | #950 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 49 | #894 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 51 | #860 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,421 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,271 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,642 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,169 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Windell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Windell has been given almost only to boys: 21 girls in 96 years of records.
Girls and boys named Windell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Windell, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 52% of the 3,027 Americans ever recorded as Windell. The median Windell alive today is 64 years old; half are between 50 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,459 people named Windell (59 women and girls, 1,400 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 218 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 681 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 375 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 65 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 31 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Windell born?
The states with the most babies named Windell are Texas, Alabama and Kentucky, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 349 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 126 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Kentucky | 117 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 104 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 96 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Mississippi | 94 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 51 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Windell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Windell is most over-represented in Texas: since 1914 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Windell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,603 babies since 1880, Windell is the most given (84% of them).
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 Windell
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 Windell and names like it
- Compare Windell and WyndellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sWindell peaked in 1940.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Windell since 1910.
- The top names of 1940The year the most babies were named Windell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Windell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.