Purnell
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
762
peak year 1964
More common than
87%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1964
- 19 births
- Best rank
- #1,668
- in 1944
- First recorded
- 1913
- #3,163 that year
- Last recorded
- 2010
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1955
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 76 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 196419#1,887Peak
- 194418#1,668
- 196718#1,887
- 196317#2,027
- 196517#1,976
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,668 in 1944 · peak births 19 in 1964
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
762 boys · 6 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Purnell has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.