girls:
343 births since 1917
#5373 (6th percentile)
boys:
540 births since 1922
#4046 (12th percentile)
overall:
883 births since 1917
#6856 (11th percentile)
The name Lenell is the #6,856 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 883 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 11.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,046 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 540 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,373 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 343 births since 1917.
Lenell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for girls and 1922 for boys). Birth data for Lenell is available in 77 out of the 99 years between 1917 and 2015 (63 years for boys and 45 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 Lenell has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.2% of all recorded births). In 2015, 100.0% of babies named Lenell were boys. Interestingly, until around 1929, the name was more popular for girls (83.1% girls from 1917 to 1928), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (64.7% boys from 1929 to 2015).
For boys, Lenell reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #656) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
For girls, Lenell reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lenell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lenell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Lenell is pronounced as luh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leh-NEHL, at 43.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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