Shondell
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shondell has been given to 499 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1976, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% boys, 47% girls all-time.
Babies named Shondell, 2008
1 in 786,000
Shondell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shondell over time
In 2008, Shondell went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Shondell?
Shondell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 408,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shondell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shondell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shondells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shondell was born before 1977 — so the typical Shondell is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 55.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 262
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (146).
Is Shondell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (26)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shondell
Shondell is not the most common spelling — Rondell is, with 75.4% against Shondell's 7.1%.
Where Shondell is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Shondell was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 740,213 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Shondell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Shondell is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Shondell was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,185,402 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Shondell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shondell around the world
Where Shondell 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 Australia1972–1973#695in 1973
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shondell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shondell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shondell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.