Lydell
#13,166 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lydell has been given to 1,921 babies in the U.S. since 1933. In 2025 it ranked #13,166 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 80 recorded.
Babies named Lydell, 2025
1 in 663,000
Lydell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lydell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,166
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lydell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lydell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lydells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lydell was born before 1979 — so the typical Lydell is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 26.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,900
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (503).
Is Lydell 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
- −6,075
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,857
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,997
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.3%
- Peak was 1977 (80)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.4% average annual change
Spellings of Lydell
Lydell is not the most common spelling — Lowell is, with 41.0% against Lydell's 1.9%.
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 Lydell is used
Across 1910–2025, Lydell was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 324,737 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4Arizona1 in —
- 5California1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Louisiana1 in —
- 8Michigan1 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. Lydell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lydell around the world
Where Lydell ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1972–1972#722in 1972
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lydell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Lydell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lydell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.