Lemuel

Where Lemuel comes from

From Hebrew לְמוּאֵל (lemu'él, ləmūʔel, literally “devoted to God”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Lemuel
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1760
    Lemuel Francis Abbott born
    painter
  2. 1815
    Lemuel J. Bowden born
    American politician
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #207 among boys — 59 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #193
    58 babies named Lemuel — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #322.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Lemuel Francis Abbott · painter, 1760–1803
  • Lemuel J. Bowden · American politician, 1815–1864
  • Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr. · United States Marine Corps, 1896–1990
  • Lemuel Hastings Arnold · American politician, 1792–1852
  • Lemuel W. Royse · American politician, 1847–1946

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.