Idell
Idell was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 3,463 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Idell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Idell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,508, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
132 babies in 1921, the peak
Idell peaked in 1921, when 132 babies were given it (125 girls, #660 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,408 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,108 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 13 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,901 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,605 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,082 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,092 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,934 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 51 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 56 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 44 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 59 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 67 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 70 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 70 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 78 | #838 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 94 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 103 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 85 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 98 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 119 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 125 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1920 | 104 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 108 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 116 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 100 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 106 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 120 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 92 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 68 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 80 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1911 | 60 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 74 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1909 | 41 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 42 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 23 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 34 | #618 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 35 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 26 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 32 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 24 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 22 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 26 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 12 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 18 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 17 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 26 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 22 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 15 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 13 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 13 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 9 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 12 | #675 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 8 | #649 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Idell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,463 Americans recorded as Idell, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Idell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Idell, and how old are they?
An estimated 526 Americans named Idell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 69 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 673 people named Idell (617 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 756 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Idell born?
The states with the most babies named Idell are Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Louisiana and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 286 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Louisiana | 256 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Mississippi | 245 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Georgia | 206 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 163 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 147 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 100 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Tennessee | 51 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Idell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Idell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Idell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,639 babies since 1880, Idell is the most given (95% 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 Idell
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 Idell and names like it
- Compare Idell and IdilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sIdell peaked in 1921.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Idell since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Idell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Idell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with IMost given first.