Windel
Last seen for boys in 1982 at #6,385
- Peak · boys
- 1941 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 234since 1920
Windel over time
Rank among boys' names. Windel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #2,848 | 9 |
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| 1960 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
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| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
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| 1951 | #2,844 | 8 |
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| 1948 | #2,608 | 9 |
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| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
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| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,386 | 10 |
| 1941 | #1,821 | 15 |
| 1940 | #2,081 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | #1,913 | 14 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
| 1934 | #2,742 | 8 |
| 1933 | #2,368 | 10 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #2,772 | 10 |
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| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Windel! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Windel is popular in 1948
No state had 5 or more boys named Windel in 1948, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Windel
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1982
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1941 at #1,821 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1943, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 76,190 boys born in 1937 were named Windel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 362,889 boys born in 1982 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,821 in 1941, was only 1 in 81,888 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.8% of all boys named Windel (58) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 27 | #2,772 (1923) | #3,627 |
| 1930s | 56 | #1,913 (1937) | #2,917 |
| 1940s | 58 | #1,821 (1941) | #2,550 |
| 1950s | 41 | #2,844 (1951) | #3,279 |
| 1960s | 40 | #2,848 (1962) | #3,451 |
| 1970s | 7 | #4,842 (1979) | #4,842 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,385 (1982) | #6,385 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Windel in 1948
Top boys' names in 1948
More about 1948
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1,754,618 boys got a published name in 1948; 1 in 194,958 of them was named Windel, which outranked 37.9% of the 4,199 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,443Ulyses10
- #2,443Wallis10
- #2,443Watt10
- #2,608Windel9
- #2,608Adron9
- #2,608Alejo9
- #2,608Alger9
- #2,788Addis8
- #2,788Adrain8
- #2,788Alfreddie8
Tied with 179 names at #2,608; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.