Lael — #2654 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lael

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,261 babies named Lael between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lael currently holds the #2654 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 77 babies received it in a single year. Lael is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,010 additional births since 1922.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lael performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 560 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Lael shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 134 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lael in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lael 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 2,261 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.