Meaning not yet researched.
Windell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #549 in 1940.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #549 in 1940; #10,623 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Windell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,623 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1940, at #549.
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Windell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #549 in 1940 · most boys in one year: 117 (1941).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Windell, making it the 10,623rd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #549, reached in 1940. The most boys given the name in a single year was 117, in 1941. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #959 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Windell in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 11 babies. In all, 3,027 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 679 babies named Windell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31 US boys were named Windell; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wendell (54,330 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Windol and Windale 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Windol (11), Windale (5).
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 Windell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,623 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #12,171 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #14,229 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,737 |
| 2018 | — | — | 6 | #12,072 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #12,147 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,482 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,502 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,621 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,505 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,299 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #11,267 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,633 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,968 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,970 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,951 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,347 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,602 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,503 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,163 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,089 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,345 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,515 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,839 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,324 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,919 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,225 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,108 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,678 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,908 |
| 1979 | — | — | 17 | #2,775 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #3,067 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,787 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,929 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,946 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,197 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,511 |
| 1972 | — | — | 31 | #1,565 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,595 |
| 1970 | — | — | 27 | #1,698 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,567 |
| 1968 | — | — | 31 | #1,426 |
| 1967 | — | — | 30 | #1,409 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,553 | 38 | #1,236 |
| 1965 | — | — | 43 | #1,162 |
| 1964 | — | — | 49 | #1,095 |
| 1963 | — | — | 51 | #1,080 |
| 1962 | — | — | 47 | #1,136 |
| 1961 | — | — | 66 | #949 |
| 1960 | — | — | 63 | #963 |
| 1959 | — | — | 50 | #1,100 |
| 1958 | — | — | 56 | #1,025 |
| 1957 | — | — | 62 | #970 |
| 1956 | — | — | 54 | #1,031 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,719 | 45 | #1,112 |
| 1954 | — | — | 55 | #1,019 |
| 1953 | — | — | 56 | #965 |
| 1952 | — | — | 57 | #952 |
| 1951 | — | — | 53 | #971 |
| 1950 | — | — | 53 | #959 |
| 1949 | — | — | 56 | #934 |
| 1948 | — | — | 55 | #944 |
| 1947 | — | — | 46 | #1,079 |
| 1946 | — | — | 50 | #951 |
| 1945 | — | — | 39 | #1,036 |
| 1944 | — | — | 46 | #962 |
| 1943 | — | — | 72 | #772 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,366 | 72 | #759 |
| 1941 | — | — | 117 | #557 |
| 1940 | 5 | #5,013 | 116 | #549 |
| 1939 | — | — | 53 | #845 |
| 1938 | — | — | 45 | #950 |
| 1937 | — | — | 49 | #894 |
| 1936 | — | — | 51 | #860 |
| 1935 | — | — | 24 | #1,421 |
| 1934 | — | — | 39 | #1,058 |
| 1933 | — | — | 41 | #1,012 |
| 1932 | — | — | 37 | #1,125 |
| 1931 | — | — | 33 | #1,216 |
| 1930 | — | — | 32 | #1,280 |
| 1929 | — | — | 32 | #1,271 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,821 |
| 1927 | — | — | 32 | #1,321 |
| 1926 | — | — | 39 | #1,160 |
| 1925 | — | — | 35 | #1,223 |
| 1924 | — | — | 32 | #1,328 |
| 1923 | — | — | 32 | #1,299 |
| 1922 | — | — | 23 | #1,642 |
| 1921 | — | — | 25 | #1,545 |
| 1920 | — | — | 25 | #1,542 |
| 1919 | — | — | 21 | #1,691 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,825 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,211 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,170 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,305 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,098 |
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).