girls:
86 births since 1911
#5630 (1st percentile)
boys:
59 births since 1946
#4527 (1st percentile)
overall:
145 births since 1911
#7594 (2nd percentile)
The name Linnell is the #7,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 145 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,630 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1911. For boys, it ranks #4,527 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 59 births since 1946.
Linnell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for girls and 1946 for boys). Birth data for Linnell is available in 20 out of the 85 years between 1911 and 1995 (14 years for girls and 10 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 Linnell has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.3% of all recorded births). In 1995, 100.0% of babies named Linnell were girls.
For girls, Linnell reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #682) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
For boys, Linnell reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #611) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 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 "Linnell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Linnell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.4% confident that Linnell is pronounced as lih-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIH-nehl, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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