Gennell
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gennell has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1943, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Gennell, 1980
1 in 689,000
Gennell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gennell?
Gennell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1980
- 1 in 689,000
- 5 of 3,444,198 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 332,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1980
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 477,468 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gennell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gennell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gennells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gennell was born before 1949 — so the typical Gennell is around 76 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 36.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 84
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (66).
Is Gennell 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1943 (10)
- Years since peak
- 82
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Gennell
Gennell is not the most common spelling — Vernell is, with 25.4% against Gennell's 0.64%.
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 Gennell is used
Across 1910–2025, Gennell was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Gennell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gennell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gennell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gennell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.