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Sindel

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sindel has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 1998, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Sindel, 2021

1 in 565,000

Sindel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sindel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sindel means

Sindel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sindel is used in German.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Sindel is pronounced /sindel/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Sindel between 1996 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1998; its best national rank was #9,991 in 1998.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sindel?

Sindel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sindel 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sindel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sindels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sindel was born before 1999 — so the typical Sindel is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
62.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 62.2% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Sindel 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 1998 (9)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,991
1998

Spellings of Sindel

Sindel is not the most common spelling — Sindy is, with 28.3% against Sindel's 0.46%.

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.

Sindel around the world

Where Sindel 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
    1992–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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

Sindel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,991
1998
Peak year
1998
9 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sindel

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

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Sibling names for Sindel

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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