Lynelle
Feminine · “lake”
Lynelle joins Lynn to the French -elle, and Lynn is a Welsh lake that became an American suffix.
How old is the name Lynelle?
Lynelle first appears in US birth records in 1927 — 98 years ago. The typical Lynelle alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 2,100 people named Lynelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lynelle most popular?
Lynelle peaked in 1956, reaching #1186 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 3,475 places below that high. See the whole 1956 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lynelle
Ours, offered as ours. Llyn is the ordinary Welsh word for a lake and it is all over the map of Wales — Llyn Tegid, Llyn Idwal, the Llŷn peninsula. It entered English naming as a surname, became the given name Lynn, then dissolved into the -lyn ending attached to hundreds of modern names. A Welsh common noun has ended up as one of the most productive pieces of American girls' naming, entirely by accident.
Meaningscholars disagree
lake
Lynn is from Welsh llyn, a lake, through the surname; the -elle is a French feminine diminutive. Whether any family choosing the name has the lake in mind is another matter, and the compound is a mid-century American construction.
Pronouncing Lynelle
lih-NEL
Two syllables with the stress on the second. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Lynelle
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1927
- Most girls named
- 196580 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1186reached in 1956
- Change vs 2023
- +52.6%29 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lynelle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lynelle in English — same name
- Llyn in Welsh — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania.
Lynelles among us
people named Lynelle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Lynelle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Maxcine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lynelle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maxcine climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maxcine's path sketches the road Lynelle is walking now.
Lynelle sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lynelle is headed
Lynelle looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 31% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lynelle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lynelle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lyn and Elle are both complete names in their own right.
- A settled Welsh word behind the first half.
- Seven letters and two syllables, manageable to write.
- It is strongly associated with one mid-century American generation.
- Lynelle, Lynell and Linelle are all in use and get confused.
- The two halves come from unrelated languages.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lynelles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Lynelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lynelle in 2025?
- Lynelle ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lynelle?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Lynelle — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lynelle with classmates?
- Lynelle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lynelle
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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