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Parnell

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Parnell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
196339 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1912
1,479people given the name
Babies named Parnell, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,422 boys have been named Parnell in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 39 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 18%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 57 girls have also been given it, 3.9% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Parnell
1910s91
1920s158
1930s139
1940s120
1950s145
1960s262
1970s156
1980s166
1990s111
2000s50
2010s24

In 1963, its biggest year

Parnell was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.

Names that rose and fell with Parnell

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.