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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Cardell

Cardell was the 9056th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 8 babies. Its best year was 1955, when it ranked 1186th; the most babies were born in 1989 (41). Over the last ten years it has moved down 4,635 places. More babies were named Cardell in the 1980s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#9,056 boys
Babies in 2025
8boys
Girls and boys
Almost always a boy’s name2021–2025
Peak year
198941 babies
Total since 1880
2,394babies recorded

Cardell popularity since 1880

012.52537.550 1900192019401960198020002020
Boys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.

A few girls are given the name too: 23 since 1920.

YearRank (boys)Babies (boys)
2025#9,0568
2020——
2010#4,01025
2000#3,55423
1990#2,22332
1980#2,45820
1970#1,62328
1960#1,58626
1950#1,40127
1940#1,43822
1930#2,46611
1920#2,9929
1910——
1900——
1890——
1880——

How popular is Cardell, counting every spelling?

Cardell is the most common spelling of a name family that had 8 boys in 2025 across its spellings. Together these spellings went to 8 boys in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025
Cardell8#9,05649

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Cardell?

8 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Cardell (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Cardell born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 1,057 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Cardell.

Chance of another Cardell in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Cardell?

About 1,800 people born in the US named Cardell are alive today, with a median age of 41; half are between 25 and 60. That makes Cardell mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties. The wide spread shows a name popular in two different eras.

0–910–1920–2930–3940–4950–5960–6970–7980–8990+
Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Names with a similar history

These names rose and fell in step with Cardell: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Cardell, they share its era and feel.

Questions about the name Cardell

How popular is the name Cardell?

Cardell was the 9056th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 8 babies. Its best year was 1955, when it ranked 1186th; the most babies were born in 1989 (41). Over the last ten years it has moved down 4,635 places. More babies were named Cardell in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Is Cardell a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, almost always a boy’s name given the name Cardell in the US.