Gennell
Gennell was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gennell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gennell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,894, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1943, the peak
Gennell peaked in 1943, when 10 girls were given it, #3,118 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #10,894 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,124 | 3.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,377 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,853 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,106 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,910 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,763 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,402 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,578 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,512 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 9 | #4,073 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,629 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,696 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,882 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,859 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,816 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,196 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,205 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,118 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,270 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,094 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,035 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,569 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,015 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,975 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,496 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gennell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gennell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gennell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gennell, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Gennell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 66 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 166 people named Gennell (160 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Gennell?
Gennell is a less common spelling of Genell: SSA has recorded 179 Gennell and 1,437 Genell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,776 babies since 1880, Gennell is the second most given (10% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gennell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gennell and names like it
- Compare Gennell and GenellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sGennell peaked in 1943.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gennell since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Gennell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gennell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.