girls:
352 births since 1909
#5364 (6th percentile)
boys:
41.3k births since 1881
#555 (88th percentile)
overall:
41.6k births since 1881
#1210 (84th percentile)
The name Lowell is the #1,210 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,615 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 84.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #555 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 41,263 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,364 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 352 births since 1909.
Lowell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1909 for girls). Birth data for Lowell is available in 142 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 41 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 Lowell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lowell reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 73.0% percentile (ranked #141) with 1,019 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 1,019 births per million (ranked 73.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lowell ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lowell reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #566) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 19 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lowell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lowell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.1% confident that Lowell is pronounced as LOH-ehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LOH-uhl, at 40.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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