Entry № 9546 · Yiddish origin

Sheindel Sheindel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHANE-del /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yiddish
Meaning
"Beautiful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Yiddish)

A name that means "beautiful".

Sheindel is a Yiddish diminutive from sheyn (beautiful) — sharing a root with the German schön. A traditional Yiddish women's name.

Sheindel is widely used in Hasidic communities.

Beautiful. The Yiddish endearment.

The name in its native script.

Sheindel
Transliteration
Sheindel
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃeɪn.dəl /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Sheindel stands.

Sheindel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sheindels before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Sheindel
Common in Yiddish literature.

Names connected to Sheindel.

The number behind Sheindel.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheindel reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.