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Lynelle

#4,713 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lynelle has been given to 2,339 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #4,713 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Lynelle, 2025

1 in 114,000

Lynelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lynelle: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lynelle means

Lynelle is a given name.

The naming story behind Lynelle

Wikidata records Lynelle as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q137523736, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,339 girls were recorded with the name Lynelle between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,189 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,947 in 2020 to #4,713 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,881 in 2015 to #4,713 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lynelle?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,713
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lynelle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lynelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lynelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lynelle was born before 1970 — so the typical Lynelle is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,193
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (614).

Is Lynelle 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
+1,589
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8,234
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,168
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.9%
Peak was 1971 (83)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,189
1956

Spellings of Lynelle

Lynelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 38.0% against Lynelle's 1.6%.

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 Lynelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Lynelle was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 232,485 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Lynelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lynelle around the world

Where Lynelle 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.

  • France
    2010–2025
    #7,252
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1954–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lynelle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,713
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,234
Best rank ever
#1,189
1956
Peak year
1971
83 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,339
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Lynelle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LynnelleLynnleeLynleeLynneaJiselleMabelleRoselleLyndeeLynnaeGizelleJazelleJonelleLynzieLynleyLyndiLyndsieLynettaLynnaLyndseyLyndieLyndenLynleighAnnelleJizelle

Names with a curve like Lynelle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lynelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LezlieRanaeDennaJuleeKendaLoryMeriBeckiJeanmarieRisaZoraidaTari

Sibling names for Lynelle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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