Carnell
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carnell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 107 | |
| 1920s | 248 | |
| 1930s | 295 | |
| 1940s | 421 | |
| 1950s | 734 | |
| 1960s | 573 | |
| 1970s | 588 | |
| 1980s | 511 | |
| 1990s | 400 | |
| 2000s | 396 | |
| 2010s | 278 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
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.
- Fredericopeak 1959
- Cardellpeak 1989
- Eloypeak 1993
- Lionellpeak 1960
- Arnellpeak 1961
- Rudypeak 1960
- Ladellpeak 1969
- Cornellpeak 1962
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.