Lynelle
Lynelle was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,713 among girls’ names; 2,339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Lynelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 33 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lynelle?
#4,713 among girls’ names, 2025
Lynelle rose from #6,881 in 2015 to #4,713 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 18.0 per million.
83 babies in 1971, the peak
Lynelle peaked in 1971, when 83 girls were given it, #1,310 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,713 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,302 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,309 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,887 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,766 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,947 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,999 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,610 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,293 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,459 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,881 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,887 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,855 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,246 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,301 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,092 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,290 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,959 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,456 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,506 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,206 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,879 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,710 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,278 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,636 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,012 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,362 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,931 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,101 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,977 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,877 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,932 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,472 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,612 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,825 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,186 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,709 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,209 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,578 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,456 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,138 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,027 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,111 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,804 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,497 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,839 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,651 | 21.2 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,586 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,160 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,056 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,649 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,158 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,603 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,844 | 30.2 |
| 1971 | 83 | #1,310 | 49.9 |
| 1970 | 66 | #1,511 | 37.8 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,585 | 33.8 |
| 1968 | 62 | #1,444 | 37.8 |
| 1967 | 79 | #1,199 | 47.8 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,220 | 46.1 |
| 1965 | 80 | #1,204 | 45.3 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,289 | 39.6 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,662 | 24.9 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,414 | 31.5 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,227 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,713 | 21.8 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,578 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,598 | 22.4 |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,363 | 29.8 |
| 1956 | 77 | #1,189 | 38.4 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,862 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,790 | 17.5 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,338 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,467 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,356 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,819 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,184 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,758 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,172 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,196 | 12.1 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,040 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,564 | 6.0 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,110 | 7.9 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,084 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,623 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,286 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,822 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,295 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynelle, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,339 Americans ever recorded as Lynelle. The median Lynelle alive today is 55 years old; half are between 33 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 2,002 people named Lynelle (1,973 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,057 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 587 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 711 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 301 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 259 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 203 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lynelle born?
The states with the most babies named Lynelle are California, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 147 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 46 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lynelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,920 babies since 1880, Lynelle is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 240 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Lynelle
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 Lynelle and names like it
- Compare Lynelle and LynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLynelle peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Lynelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lynelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.