# Carnell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carnell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,164 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,618 / 546 (11% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 10 | 3,584 |
| 1953 | 7 | 4,648 |
| 1954 | 8 | 4,325 |
| 1955 | 12 | 3,407 |
| 1956 | 12 | 3,516 |
| 1957 | 7 | 4,973 |
| 1958 | 6 | 5,490 |
| 1959 | 10 | 4,063 |
| 1960 | 5 | 6,481 |
| 1961 | 11 | 4,041 |
| 1962 | 8 | 4,917 |
| 1963 | 6 | 5,966 |
| 1965 | 7 | 5,349 |
| 1966 | 7 | 5,334 |
| 1967 | 8 | 5,035 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,248 |
| 2012 | 39 | 2,963 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,421 |
| 2014 | 33 | 3,313 |
| 2015 | 28 | 3,802 |
| 2016 | 20 | 4,804 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,756 |
| 2018 | 21 | 4,628 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,664 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,281 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9,900 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6,897 |
| 2023 | 10 | 7,830 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,177 |
| 2025 | 10 | 7,767 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |

## People named Carnell

- John Crosbie, Canadian politician (1931-2020)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.