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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Varnell

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

180

peak year 1956

More common than

70%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
10 births
Best rank
#2,783
in 1956
First recorded
1917
#4,554 that year
Last recorded
1987
no later published record
Average birth year
1943
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
30 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195610#2,783Peak
  2. 19709#3,507
  3. 19248#3,490
  4. 19338#2,989
  5. 19257#3,722

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,783 in 1956 · peak births 10 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 65% boys■ 35% girls

180 boys · 98 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 Varnell has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.