girls:
249 births since 1912
#5467 (4th percentile)
boys:
45 births since 1916
#4541 (1st percentile)
overall:
294 births since 1912
#7445 (4th percentile)
The name Edell is the #7,445 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 294 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,467 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 249 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,541 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1916.
Edell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Edell is available in 27 out of the 45 years between 1912 and 1956 (26 years for girls and 8 years for boys). 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 Edell has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.7% of all recorded births being female. In 1956, 0.0% of babies named Edell were girls.
For girls, Edell reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #591) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 15 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1954.
For boys, Edell reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #527) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edell".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Edell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.8% confident that Edell is pronounced as ih-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-DEHL, at 20.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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