Brownell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brownell has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 1953, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Brownell, 1953
1 in 642,000
Brownell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brownell?
Brownell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1953
- 1 in 642,000
- 6 of 3,852,460 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 329,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1953
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 445,055 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brownell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1953 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 445,055 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brownell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brownells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brownell was born before 1953 — so the typical Brownell is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Brownell 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
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- 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 1953 (6)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Brownell
Brownell is not the most common spelling — Ronnell is, with 59.1% against Brownell's 0.28%.
Brownell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brownell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brownell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.