Lionell
Recorded 1915–2025 · United States
Lionell was most popular in 1960, when 36 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,057 that year. In 2025 it ranked #20,040, with 7 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,613 people named Lionell.
Lionell over time
How old is the name Lionell?
Lionell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1915, which makes it about 110 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 102 of the 111 years since.
How many people are named Lionell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,613 American births named Lionell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,203 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Lionell in 2025?
7 American babies were named Lionell in 2025, ranking #20,040 that year.
Is Lionell getting more or less popular?
Lionell is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Lionell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Lionell is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,613 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Lionell?
Roughly 1,203 Americans named Lionell are alive today — 75% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 37 and 66.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Lionell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org