Blondell
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Blondell has been given to 1,490 babies in the U.S. since 1906. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1934, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Blondell, 1975
1 in 604,000
Blondell over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Blondell?
Blondell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Blondell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blondell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Blondells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Blondell was born before 1938 — so the typical Blondell is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 23.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 396
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (339).
Is Blondell rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1934 (46)
- Years since peak
- 91
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.6% average annual change
Spellings of Blondell
Blondell is the most-used spelling, taking 64.0% of the 2,303 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Blondell64.0%1,475
- Lyndell36.0%828
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Blondell is used
Across 1910–2025, Blondell was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 49,306 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 4,762
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Blondell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Blondell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Blondell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Blondell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.