Carnell — #10933 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carnell

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,608 babies named Carnell between 1897 and 2024, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carnell currently holds the #10933 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 92 babies received it in a single year. Carnell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 546 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carnell performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 734 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Carnell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 208 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Carnell in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carnell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,608 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.