Larnell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Larnell has been given to 887 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1990, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Larnell, 2017
1 in 447,000
Larnell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Larnell?
Larnell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 447,000
- 8 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 309,934 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Larnell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 309,934 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Larnell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Larnells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Larnell was born before 1973 — so the typical Larnell is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 16.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 764
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (145).
Is Larnell 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 1990 (26)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Larnell
Larnell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 57.5% against Larnell's 0.32%.
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 Larnell is used
Across 1910–2025, Larnell was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 452,124 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Tennessee1 in —
- 5Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Larnell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Larnell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Larnell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Larnell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.