Hendel

#15,763 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Hannah

Hendel has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #15,763 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Hendel, 2025

1 in 663,000

Hendel over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hendel: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Hannah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hendel means

Hendel is a diminutive of Hannah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hendel is used in Yiddish (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

Hendel is a diminutive of Hannah. Hannah has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hannah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 girls were recorded with the name Hendel between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2011; its best national rank was #9,956 in 2011.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,523 in 2015 to #15,763 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Hendel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #15,763; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hendel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hendel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hendels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hendel was born before 2013 — so the typical Hendel is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 66.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 94.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 89; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 66.3% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Hendel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +419; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,240; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.71×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 45.5%; Peak was 2011 (11)
Years since peak: 14; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,956; 2011

Spellings of Hendel

Hendel is not the most common spelling — Kendal is, with 30.7% against Hendel's 0.30%.

Kendal30.7%9,123
Henley22.7%6,725
Kendyl17.2%5,098
Heide7.1%2,103
Kendell6.6%1,957
Wende4.6%1,377
Kendel2.7%801
Wendee2.7%790

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hendel is used

Across 1910–2025, Hendel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 564,803 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New Jersey1 in —
2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hendel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hendel around the world

Where Hendel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
2025–2025
#5,545
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hendel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #15,763
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #9,956; 2011
Peak year: 2011; 11 that year
First recorded: 1999
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 89
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Hendel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Henchy Henlie Hendy Henlee Henrie Henslee Henzley Henli Henrine Hennesy Hennie Mindel Henya Hendryx Henessy Henly Henslie Kindel Hena Hendrix Hend Videl Henleigh Cyndel

Sibling names for Hendel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Abagail Shyann Allyssa Sydni Sydnie Rhianna Alysa Adelle

For a brother

Aaden Kale Brennen Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn Jarod Keven

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