Lynel
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lynel has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1963, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% girls, 19% boys all-time.
Babies named Lynel, 1974
1 in 507,000
Lynel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Lynel over time
In 1986, Lynel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Lynel?
Lynel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1974
- 1 in 507,000
- 6 of 3,039,803 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 245,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1974
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 351,173 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lynel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 351,173 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lynel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lynels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lynel was born before 1964 — so the typical Lynel is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 40.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 64
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Lynel 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 1963 (8)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.9% average annual change
Spellings of Lynel
Lynel is not the most common spelling — Lynn is, with 44.4% against Lynel's 0.02%.
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.
Lynel around the world
Where Lynel 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.
- France2007–2007#5,504in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Lynel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Lynel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lynel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.