Stancel

Boys' name

Possibly stone chamber

Stancel has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Stancel, 1947

1 in 720,000

Stancel over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stancel: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly stone chamber

surname transfer

What Stancel means

Stancel may mean “stone chamber”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Possibly from: * Old English stane cell, which means "stone chamber". Or it could be from Stancil, a village in England. * German Stenzel. * Polish-Jewish Stencel * Polish Stanisław, or Russian Станислав (Stanislav) * Romanian stâncă, meaning rock or cliff

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Origin, language, and formation

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

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

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stancel is pronounced /ˈstæn.səl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Stancel between 1915 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,198 in 1947.

How common is Stancel?

Stancel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1947: 1 in 720,000; 5 of 3,602,100 births
Among boys only: 1 in 366,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1947: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 499,358 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Stancel 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 1947 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 499,358 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stancel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stancels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stancel was born before 1915 — so the typical Stancel is around 110 today.

Median birth year: 1915; About 110 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Stancel 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 1915 (5)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,198; 1947

Spellings of Stancel

Stancel is not the most common spelling — Stanley is, with 95.3% against Stancel's <0.01%.

Stanley95.3%301,425
Stacey4.4%13,982
Ancel0.24%751
Stancel<0.01%10

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.

Stancel 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,198; 1947
Peak year: 1915; 5 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1947
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Stancel

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

Statton Statten Starley Stayton Staphon Stavya Stallone Starlyn Starkey Stanson Stathan Standly Standard Stalyn Starbuck Stavro Staffon Staten Staccato Stanlee Statler Stance Standish Staney

Sibling names for Stancel

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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