girls:
655 births since 1941
#5061 (11th percentile)
overall:
655 births since 1941
#7084 (8th percentile)
The name Charnell is the #7,084 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 655 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 8.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,061 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 655 births since 1941.
Charnell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (first recorded for girls in 1941). Birth data for Charnell is available in 52 out of the 66 years between 1941 and 2006. 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 girls, Charnell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #793) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charnell".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Charnell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.5% confident that Charnell is pronounced as shahr-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAHR-nehl, at 24.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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