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Lanell

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Lanell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
195752 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1914
2,478people given the name
Babies named Lanell, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,124 girls have been named Lanell in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 52 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 17%.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 354 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.

By decade

Decadegirls named Lanell
1910s53
1920s211
1930s339
1940s339
1950s371
1960s302
1970s248
1980s131
1990s73
2000s41
2010s10
2020s6

In 1957, its biggest year

Lanell was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.

Names that rose and fell with Lanell

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.