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
Grammatical form

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

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.