girls:
546 births since 1913
#5170 (10th percentile)
boys:
4.6k births since 1897
#1784 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1897
#3799 (51st percentile)
The name Carnell is the #3,799 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,148 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 50.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,784 (61.1% percentile) for all time with 4,602 births since 1897. For girls, it ranks #5,170 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 546 births since 1913.
Carnell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Carnell is available in 112 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 52 years for girls). 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.
The name Carnell has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Carnell were boys.
For boys, Carnell reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 13.2% percentile (ranked #555) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 52 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Carnell ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Carnell reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #591) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carnell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Carnell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Carnell is pronounced as kahr-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-nehl, at 36.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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