Lindel
Lindel was last recorded in 1986, when 5 babies were given it; 356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lindel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lindel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,383, in 1986; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1951, the peak
Lindel peaked in 1951, when 18 babies were given it (12 boys, #2,317 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | #7,383 | 2.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,964 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,203 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,768 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,391 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,863 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,416 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,989 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,605 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,172 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 9 | #2,931 | 4.2 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,322 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,825 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,579 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,317 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,179 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,708 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,587 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,067 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,078 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,559 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,129 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,336 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,157 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,419 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,728 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,780 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,601 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,387 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,197 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,165 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,885 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,076 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,786 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,320 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,786 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,482 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,654 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,826 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,287 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,709 | 4.4 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,378 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,529 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lindel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 356 Americans recorded as Lindel, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lindel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lindel, and how old are they?
An estimated 138 Americans named Lindel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 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 412 people named Lindel (85 women and girls, 327 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lindel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Lindel?
Lindel is a less common spelling of Lyndell: SSA has recorded 356 Lindel and 2,793 Lyndell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,371 babies since 1880, Lindel is the fifth most given (4.8% 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 Lindel
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 Lindel and names like it
- Compare Lindel and LyndellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLindel peaked in 1951.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Lindel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lindel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.