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Windell

#10,619 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Windell has been given to 3,027 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #10,619 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1941, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Windell, 2025

1 in 474,000

Windell over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Windell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Windell means

Windell is a given name.

The naming story behind Windell

Wikidata records Windell as a given name. The entity identifier is Q120869803, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,006 boys were recorded with the name Windell between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1941; its best national rank was #549 in 1940.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Windell between 1940 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1966; its best national rank was #5,011 in 1940.

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.

How common is Windell?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,619
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Windell 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Windell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Windells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Windell was born before 1951 — so the typical Windell is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,560
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1940s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (669).

Is Windell 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
6.0%
Peak was 1941 (117)
Years since peak
84
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#549
1940

Spellings of Windell

Windell is not the most common spelling — Wendell is, with 59.5% against Windell's 3.3%.

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 Windell is used

Across 1910–2025, Windell was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 64,895 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 25,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 25,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 25,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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. Windell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Windell

People whose public names include Windell, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Windell by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,619
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#549
1940
Peak year
1941
117 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,006
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,011
1940
Peak year
1966
6 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Windell

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

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Names with a curve like Windell

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Windell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GeroldDennieGaylonAllynLawranceNancyTheodisGlynnDuwayneSharonJereLynwood

Sibling names for Windell

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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