Lenell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lenell

The Social Security Administration has registered 540 babies named Lenell between 1922 and 2015, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lenell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Lenell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 343 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lenell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lenell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Lenell in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lenell 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 540 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.