boys:
840 births since 1889
#3747 (18th percentile)
overall:
840 births since 1889
#6899 (11th percentile)
The name Buell is the #6,899 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 840 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,747 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 840 births since 1889.
Buell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (first recorded for boys in 1889). Birth data for Buell is available in 57 out of the 87 years between 1889 and 1975. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Buell reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 53 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Buell".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Buell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.3% confident that Buell is pronounced as byuel, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BYUE-uhl, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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