girls:
2.1k births since 1914
#3726 (35th percentile)
boys:
354 births since 1952
#4232 (8th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1914
#5357 (31st percentile)
The name Lanell is the #5,357 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,478 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 30.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,726 (34.8% percentile) for all time with 2,124 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,232 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 354 births since 1952.
Lanell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1952 for boys). Birth data for Lanell is available in 99 out of the 109 years between 1914 and 2022 (93 years for girls and 49 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 Lanell has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Lanell were girls.
For girls, Lanell reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #538) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 42 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Lanell reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #649) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lanell".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lanell is pronounced as luh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables.
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