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Sheindel

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHAYN-del
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#5,990 for girls

Sheindel is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “little beautiful one”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).

What does Sheindel mean?

Germanic: Yiddish, from sheyn 'beautiful' + diminutive -dl

“little beautiful one”

Yiddish name used in Orthodox Jewish communities, from sheyn 'beautiful', related to German schön.

Is Sheindel a girl's or a boy's name?

Sheindel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sheindel in the UK?

Rank in 2025
5,990th among girls
Babies in 2025
3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Sheindel, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 4 girls.

Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.

2004Busiest: 4 in 20042025
Sheindel in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20253#5,990
20240–
20233#5,929
20220–
20210–
20200–
20193#5,804
20180–
20174#4,967
20164#4,980
20150–
20140–
20134#4,953
20120–
20110–
20104#4,931
20090–
20084#4,742
20070–
20060–
20050–
20044#3,916

Names like Sheindel

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sheindel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sheindel, updated 20 October 2026.