Idell
Idell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 465th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921125 births
- Best rank
- #465in 1910
- Since 1880
- 3,425people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,425 girls have been named Idell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 125 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 125 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Idell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 33 | |
| 1890s | 152 | |
| 1900s | 305 | |
| 1910s | 924 | |
| 1920s | 946 | |
| 1930s | 470 | |
| 1940s | 282 | |
| 1950s | 204 | |
| 1960s | 92 | |
| 1970s | 11 | |
| 1980s | 6 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Idell was the 660th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Idell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beatricepeak 1921
- Marguerittepeak 1919
- Garnetpeak 1918
- Rosamondpeak 1916
- Lurlinepeak 1921
- Helenpeak 1918
- Vergiepeak 1919
- Elnapeak 1917
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.