Lynell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lynell

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,961 babies named Lynell between 1914 and 2008, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lynell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 89 babies received it in a single year. Lynell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 823 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lynell performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 469 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lynell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 156 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lynell in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lynell 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 1,961 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.