Windell
Windell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 549th, in 1940.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1941117 births
- Best rank
- #549in 1940
- Since 1914
- 2,998people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,998 boys have been named Windell in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1941, with 117 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 117 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1940s alone account for 22%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Windell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 79 | |
| 1920s | 294 | |
| 1930s | 404 | |
| 1940s | 669 | |
| 1950s | 541 | |
| 1960s | 446 | |
| 1970s | 223 | |
| 1980s | 168 | |
| 1990s | 101 | |
| 2000s | 44 | |
| 2010s | 12 | |
| 2020s | 17 |
In 1941, its biggest year
Windell was the 557th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1941 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1941.
Names that rose and fell with Windell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lindellpeak 1949
- Jeroldpeak 1942
- Cleothapeak 1949
- Gaylonpeak 1949
- Rondalpeak 1947
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Jerepeak 1941
- Gearldpeak 1941
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.