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Mandel

Boys' name

Almond kernel, almond, through Mandel

Mandel has been given to 583 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Mandel, 2011

1 in 610,000

Mandel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mandel: meaning, origin, and history

Almond kernel, almond, through Mandel

surname transfer

What Mandel means

Mandel belongs to the name family reached through Mandel → Mandel. Its meaning is “almond kernel, almond”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* Germanic surname (Dutch Mandel, German Mandel, Yiddish מאַנדל (Mandl), all meaning "almond"). Also found in Slovene as Mandelj. * As a south German and Austrian surname, variant of Mandl, from Mann + -l. * As a Dutch surname, from mandel (“sheaf of wheat”) (see Mandel below). * As a Jewish surname, variant of Mendel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mandel (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Mandel is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Mandel comes through Dutch Mandel, German Mandel and Yiddish מאַנדל.

Mandel is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mandl, Mendel and Mandel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 583 boys were recorded with the name Mandel between 1913 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,906 in 1973.

How common is Mandel?

Mandel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mandel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mandel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mandels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mandel was born before 1972 — so the typical Mandel is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
473
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Mandel 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (23)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,906
1973

Spellings of Mandel

Mandel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 73.0% against Mandel's 0.02%.

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 Mandel is used

Across 1910–2025, Mandel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mandel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mandel around the world

Where Mandel 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.

  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mandel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,906
1973
Peak year
1973
23 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
583
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mandel

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

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Sibling names for Mandel

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

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