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Lindell

Lindell reached its high-water mark in 1949 at number 817, and has been recorded 2,792 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,600 Lindells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lindell boys named Lindell

Girls and boys called Lindell

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 357 girls and 2,435 boys in all, and in 1974 the split was 5 to 27.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 45 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,792
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
66
Peak year
1949
Best rank
817th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1913
Girls / boys
357 / 2,435

How old the living Lindells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,792 babies given the name since 1913, about 1,600 are alive — 56 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 840 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Lindell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lindell is most concentrated in Missouri (24.0×), Illinois (5.6×), Arkansas (5.0×), Kentucky (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1949

The most popular boys’ names the year Lindell peaked:

All the names of 1949

Related names

Lindell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.