Shandel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shandel has been given to 375 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1991, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Shandel, 2002
1 in 534,000
Shandel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shandel?
Shandel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 534,000
- 7 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 257,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 370,070 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shandel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 370,070 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shandel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shandels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shandel was born before 1988 — so the typical Shandel is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 365
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (143).
Is Shandel 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 1991 (48)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shandel
Shandel is not the most common spelling — Chanel is, with 19.0% against Shandel's 0.36%.
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 Shandel is used
Across 1910–2025, Shandel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New 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. Shandel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shandel around the world
Where Shandel 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.
- Canada1991–1992#2,433in 1992
- South Australia1969–1994#716in 1994
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shandel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shandel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shandel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.