Lyndel
Lyndel was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 607 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyndel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyndel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,572, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1946, the peak
Lyndel peaked in 1946, when 28 babies were given it (16 boys, #1,858 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,572 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,726 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,372 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,569 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #4,090 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,221 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 10 | #2,839 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 12 | #2,424 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,149 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,243 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #6,461 | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 12 | #2,488 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,127 | 18 | #1,935 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,145 | 10 | #2,822 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 10 | #2,790 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 12 | #2,489 | |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,209 | 9 | #2,948 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,758 | 11 | #2,583 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,509 | 12 | #2,445 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,574 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,498 | 8 | #3,090 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,650 | |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,693 | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,644 | 10 | #2,589 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,851 | 7 | #3,209 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,701 | 8 | #2,930 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,020 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,208 | 7 | #3,261 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,975 | 16 | #1,858 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,083 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,566 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,080 | 16 | #1,880 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,964 | 16 | #1,842 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,430 | 11 | #2,282 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,773 | 13 | #2,047 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 12 | #2,127 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 13 | #2,056 | |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,860 | 9 | #2,611 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,054 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,857 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,497 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,893 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 7 | #3,259 | |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,381 | 6 | #3,618 |
| 1930 | under 5 | 8 | #3,180 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,377 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #3,046 | |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,268 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,837 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lyndel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 607 Americans recorded as Lyndel, 30% are girls and 70% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lyndel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyndel, and how old are they?
An estimated 331 Americans named Lyndel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 63 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 586 people named Lyndel (215 women and girls, 371 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 395 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Lyndel?
Lyndel is a less common spelling of Lyndell: SSA has recorded 607 Lyndel and 2,793 Lyndell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,371 babies since 1880, Lyndel is the fourth most given (8.2% 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 Lyndel
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 Lyndel and names like it
- Compare Lyndel and LyndellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLyndel peaked in 1946.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyndel since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Lyndel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lyndel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.