Shandell
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shandell has been given to 594 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 52 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.
Babies named Shandell, 2003
1 in 475,000
Shandell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shandell over time
In 2003, Shandell went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shandell?
Shandell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 475,000
- 8 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 228,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 329,370 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shandell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 329,370 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shandell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shandells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shandell was born before 1985 — so the typical Shandell is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 31.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 526
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (163).
Is Shandell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1991 (52)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shandell
Shandell is not the most common spelling — Shantel is, with 23.9% against Shandell's 1.2%.
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 Shandell is used
Across 1910–2025, Shandell was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,545,521 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Louisiana1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 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. Shandell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shandell around the world
Where Shandell 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 Australia1975–1989#692in 1989
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shandell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shandell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shandell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.