Lonell
Lonell was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 786 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lonell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lonell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,486, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1980, the peak
Lonell peaked in 1980, when 27 boys were given it, #2,031 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #13,486 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,785 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,605 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,228 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,050 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,040 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,895 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,934 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,269 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,302 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | #4,687 | 6.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,623 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,937 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,333 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,635 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,421 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,047 | 4.7 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,332 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,228 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,096 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,930 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,416 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,739 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,031 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,478 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,499 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,612 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,904 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,187 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,467 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,331 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,610 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,642 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,425 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,474 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,963 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,707 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,562 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,133 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,768 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,485 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,879 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,819 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,623 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,610 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,454 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,749 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,917 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,017 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,168 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,004 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,645 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,106 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,858 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,924 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,928 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,593 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,820 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,673 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,768 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,863 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,630 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,787 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,423 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,553 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,606 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,042 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,139 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,653 | 9.1 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,788 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,467 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,790 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,962 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,327 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,540 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lonell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 786 Americans recorded as Lonell, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lonell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lonell, and how old are they?
An estimated 547 Americans named Lonell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 40 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 526 people named Lonell (55 women and girls, 471 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 599 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,971 babies since 1880, Lonell is the second most given (40% 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 Lonell
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 Lonell and names like it
- Compare Lonell and LonnellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLonell peaked in 1980.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lonell since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Lonell.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lonell alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.