girls:
293 births since 1922
#5423 (5th percentile)
boys:
159 births since 1919
#4427 (3rd percentile)
overall:
452 births since 1919
#7287 (6th percentile)
The name Linell is the #7,287 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 452 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,423 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 293 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #4,427 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 159 births since 1919.
Linell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1922 for girls). Birth data for Linell is available in 41 out of the 72 years between 1919 and 1990 (28 years for girls and 26 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 Linell has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (64.8% of all recorded births). In 1990, 0.0% of babies named Linell were girls.
For girls, Linell reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #654) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
For boys, Linell reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #609) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Linell".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Linell is pronounced as lih-NEHL, which has 2 syllables.
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