How Many People Are Named Mendel?
people named Mendel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 134,720 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,942 babies named Mendel in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
114 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Originally this was probably a Yiddish diminutive of MANNO. It is now used as a diminutive of MENAHEM.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Mendel in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Mendel alive today is about 23 years old, and 72% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 33 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Mendel first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2024, to 114 babies. In 2025, 86 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Mendel has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,525, in 1956. In 2025 it ranked #1,846.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,846 |
| Best rank | #1,525 (1956) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,069 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Mendel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Mendel were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,988 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mendel was given about 14.6 times as often in New York.
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