US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE LIONEL

Same rise and fall as Lionel, around the same years.

WHERE LIONEL IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Lionel ranked highest in Washington (#691) and lowest in Ohio (#1,621). 26 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Lionel name popularity

Lionel has been given to 33,833 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2023, when 609 babies got the name, and its best rank was #631 in 1934.

In 2025, 419 babies were named Lionel (#1,332 in the country), 31% below the peak. That is up 3% from 2015.

Almost every Lionel is a boy.

An estimated 23K people named Lionel are alive in the US today, with a median age of 43.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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