Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Mendell

#16,724 most common boys' name of all time · #43,697 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–1978

Rank among boys
#16,724
Rank overall
#43,697 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
82
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1927 #3,637
Best rank
#3,213 1914
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
192019401960

Mendell first appears in 1914. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1978 — 6 6 #5,215
1977 — 6 6 #5,284
1975 — 5 5 #5,653
1973 — 5 5 #5,279
1970 — 5 5 #4,926
1965 — 5 5 #4,107
1964 — 5 5 #4,231
1941 — 6 6 #3,355
1940 — 5 5 #3,700
1929 — 5 5 #4,232
1928 — 5 5 #4,405
1927 — 7 7 #3,637
1925 — 5 5 #4,481
1915 — 6 6 #3,647
1914 — 6 6 #3,213