Lyonel
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1936 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 257since 1925
Lyonel over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Lyonel has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #9,871 | 7 |
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| 2004 | #8,927 | 7 |
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| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
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| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
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First appearance
1925
The first year at least five boys were named Lyonel! It came in at #3,741, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Lyonel is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Lyonel in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
- 1,403 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #12,008)
- 4,942 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1936 at #3,549 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1937, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 171,058
- Highest: 1 in 171,058 boys born in 2023 were named Lyonel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,549 in 1936, was only 1 in 207,441 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 27.6% of all boys named Lyonel (71) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #3,741 (1925) | #3,741 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 16 | #3,935 (1969) | #4,045 |
| 1970s | 23 | #4,054 (1973) | #5,039 |
| 1980s | 60 | #4,134 (1980) | #5,095 |
| 1990s | 13 | #6,968 (1994) | #7,073 |
| 2000s | 22 | #8,927 (2004) | #9,261 |
| 2010s | 71 | #7,050 (2012) | #9,343 |
| 2020s | 41 | #7,738 (2023) | #10,163 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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