Mandell
Mandell is a surname and a given name:
Meaning & Origin of Mandell
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mandell is a surname and a given name:
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The Story of Mandell
Mandell first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1921, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1975: 13 births, good for #2,903 nationwide. About 32% of every Mandell on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Mandell last appeared in the published SSA data in 2011, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 288 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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About the name Mandell
Mandell is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1921 and has accumulated 288 births in the dataset. Mandell's peak popularity came in 1975 when it ranked #2,903. Use the chart and map above to compare Mandell's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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