girls:
3.4k births since 1880
#2957 (48th percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1902
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1880
#4653 (40th percentile)
The name Idell is the #4,653 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,463 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 39.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,957 (48.3% percentile) for all time with 3,425 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1902.
Idell has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1902 for boys). Birth data for Idell is available in 87 out of the 102 years between 1880 and 1981 (87 years for girls and 7 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 Idell has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Idell reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 20.3% percentile (ranked #446) with 117 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 176 births per million (ranked 17.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
For boys, Idell reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #548) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Idell".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Idell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.5% confident that Idell is pronounced as ai-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-dehl, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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