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How popular is “Lynell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lynell” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lynell” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lynell” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lynell” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lynell” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lynell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lynell” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 5 5 0%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 14 0.000006631 14 100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 100%
1934 19 0.000009149 9 10 -5%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 9 5 29%
1937 11 0.000005163 11 100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 100%
1939 21 0.000009531 11 10 5%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 100%
1941 16 0.000006567 8 8 0%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 100%
1943 19 0.000006731 13 6 37%
1944 19 0.000007063 19 100%
1945 23 0.00000867 16 7 39%
1946 31 0.000009702 26 5 68%
1947 42 0.000011659 33 9 57%
1948 40 0.000011586 31 9 55%
1949 60 0.000017218 46 14 53%
1950 49 0.000013987 37 12 51%
1951 56 0.000015202 45 11 61%
1952 59 0.000015534 49 10 66%
1953 48 0.000012456 38 10 58%
1954 67 0.000016831 54 13 61%
1955 57 0.000014196 45 12 58%
1956 70 0.000016978 59 11 69%
1957 59 0.00001404 51 8 73%
1958 73 0.000017659 52 21 42%
1959 54 0.000012987 39 15 44%
1960 63 0.000015167 48 15 52%
1961 58 0.000014002 43 15 48%
1962 59 0.000014621 52 7 76%
1963 70 0.000017685 56 14 60%
1964 58 0.000014919 42 16 45%
1965 61 0.000016826 53 8 74%
1966 54 0.000015537 39 15 44%
1967 55 0.000016201 41 14 49%
1968 65 0.00001924 53 12 63%
1969 46 0.000013236 29 17 26%
1970 58 0.000016082 46 12 59%
1971 103 0.000030009 89 14 73%
1972 63 0.000020045 47 16 49%
1973 49 0.000016242 36 13 47%
1974 34 0.000011184 26 8 53%
1975 32 0.000010598 23 9 44%
1976 32 0.000010546 18 14 13%
1977 34 0.000010704 23 11 35%
1978 33 0.000010397 21 12 27%
1979 38 0.000011422 25 13 32%
1980 44 0.000012774 26 18 18%
1981 37 0.000010696 22 15 19%
1982 24 0.000006842 13 11 8%
1983 36 0.000010395 21 15 17%
1984 29 0.000008312 19 10 31%
1985 39 0.000010927 17 22 -13%
1986 17 0.000004779 9 8 6%
1987 26 0.000007211 13 13 0%
1988 21 0.000005683 14 7 33%
1989 25 0.000006503 14 11 12%
1990 28 0.000007084 18 10 29%
1991 26 0.000006675 16 10 23%
1992 26 0.000006769 11 15 -15%
1993 26 0.000006896 11 15 -15%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 -100%
1997 18 0.000004964 11 7 22%
1998 12 0.000003262 6 6 0%
1999 10 0.000002707 5 5 0%
2000 12 0.000003175 6 6 0%
2001 16 0.000004274 10 6 25%
2002 14 0.000003745 6 8 -14%
2003 12 0.000003156 5 7 -17%
2004 14 0.000003664 6 8 -14%
2005 13 0.000003381 7 6 8%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 6 5 9%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 -100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%

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