Lanel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lanel

The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Lanel between 1961 and 1984, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lanel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1984. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Lanel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lanel performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Lanel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lanel 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 28 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.