Meaning not yet researched.
Mendel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 86 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,526 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,526 in 1956; #1,846 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mendel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,846 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #1,526.
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Mendel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 86 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,526 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 114 (2024).
In 2025, 86 US boys were named Mendel, making it the 1,846th most common boys’ name of the year, down 302 places from #1,544 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 114 boys named Mendel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,526, reached in 1956. The most boys given the name in a single year was 114, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,865 in 2015 and #2,168 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mendel in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 2,942 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 675 babies named Mendel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 813 US boys were named Mendel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 114. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,861 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mendel ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #262 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mindel, Mendell and Mendal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mindel (272), Mendell (82), Mendal (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mendel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 74 | #262 | #283 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 86 | #1,846 |
| 2024 | — | — | 114 | #1,544 |
| 2023 | — | — | 104 | #1,658 |
| 2022 | — | — | 68 | #2,161 |
| 2021 | — | — | 92 | #1,758 |
| 2020 | — | — | 85 | #1,785 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,928 |
| 2018 | — | — | 57 | #2,345 |
| 2017 | — | — | 70 | #2,029 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,248 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,865 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,974 |
| 2013 | — | — | 62 | #2,155 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,932 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,366 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #1,995 |
| 2009 | — | — | 72 | #1,968 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,422 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,358 |
| 2006 | — | — | 55 | #2,306 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,551 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,522 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,904 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,183 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,601 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,659 |
| 1999 | — | — | 40 | #2,289 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,585 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,796 |
| 1996 | — | — | 45 | #1,977 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,661 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,914 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,210 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,299 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,286 |
| 1990 | — | — | 26 | #2,595 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,584 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,081 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,526 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,222 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,331 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,591 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,022 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,860 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,344 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,913 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,646 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,534 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,428 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,092 |
| 1975 | — | — | 23 | #2,042 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,633 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,469 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,766 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,249 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,700 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,374 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,682 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,715 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,793 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,918 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,894 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,896 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,047 |
| 1960 | — | — | 18 | #1,957 |
| 1959 | — | — | 23 | #1,694 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,578 |
| 1957 | — | — | 26 | #1,569 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,526 |
| 1955 | — | — | 20 | #1,765 |
| 1954 | — | — | 24 | #1,584 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,655 |
| 1952 | — | — | 20 | #1,728 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,211 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,168 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,413 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,404 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #3,020 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,623 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,574 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,142 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,835 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,745 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,405 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,396 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,896 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,154 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,879 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,482 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,635 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,806 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,868 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,707 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,997 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,295 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,389 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,432 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,554 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,307 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,757 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,125 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,612 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,820 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,245 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,671 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,857 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,834 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,416 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,182 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).