Lionel Boy Name

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The name Lionel is of Old French origin, and means young lion. The table below indicates the number of times the name Lionel has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lionel**
Use of the Name Lionel for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
25,860	12,829	5,107	757	301	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Lionel has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Lionel last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2001, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lionel**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	718	8
1881
1882
1883	770	7
1884	925	6
1885
1886	588	11
1887	502	13
1888	733	9
1889	703	9
1890	523	14
1891	438	17
1892	776	9
1893	425	19
1894	431	20
1895	466	19
1896	454	20
1897	448	19
1898	446	21
1899	446	18
1900	451	26
1901	432	20
1902	499	19
1903	355	30
1904	483	20
1905	443	25
1906	427	27
1907	425	30
1908	445	30
1909	429	34
1910	487	33
1911	313	74
1912	346	119
1913	368	128
1914	364	169
1915	359	225
1916	385	205
1917	352	254
1918	358	266
1919	362	256
1920	366	269
1921	320	332
1922	339	302
1923	321	331
1924	322	324
1925	327	309
1926	339	293
1927	322	318
1928	321	301
1929	347	263
1930	329	283
1931	321	289
1932	310	309
1933	295	320
1934	297	335
1935	325	282
1936	314	291
1937	345	247
1938	334	281
1939	332	280
1940	353	259
1941	344	282
1942	367	274
1943	363	286
1944	344	299
1945	345	306
1946	360	324
1947	372	348
1948	366	342
1949	370	337
1950	355	364
1951	372	336
1952	372	335
1953	349	394
1954	373	357
1955	406	323
1956	366	409
1957	426	329
1958	412	361
1959	388	415
1960	366	463
1961	389	419
1962	402	407
1963	412	382
1964	420	370
1965	455	290
1966	449	293
1967	443	291
1968	465	266
1969	457	281
1970	523	239
1971	504	260
1972	542	215
1973	505	238
1974	553	211
1975	505	251
1976	486	266
1977	530	251
1978	520	248
1979	547	244
1980	484	302
1981	492	290
1982	455	353
1983	396	419
1984	387	442
1985	427	403
1986	486	326
1987	509	309
1988	589	249
1989	598	268
1990	667	230
1991	710	204
1992	748	191
1993	726	204
1994	846	160
1995	823	169
1996	972	130
1997
1998	915	157
1999
2000	996	148
2001	994	153
Totals:		25,860		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Lionel as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Lionel appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 117 times during the last 125 years.

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