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Carnell

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Carnell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 766th, in 1955.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
60.00% of boys
Peak year
195892 births
Best rank
#766in 1955
Since 1897
5,154people given the name
Babies named Carnell, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

4,608 boys have been named Carnell in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 92 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 546 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Carnell
1890s5
1910s107
1920s248
1930s295
1940s421
1950s734
1960s573
1970s588
1980s511
1990s400
2000s396
2010s278
2020s52

In 1958, its biggest year

Carnell was the 778th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1958 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1958.

Names that rose and fell with Carnell

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.