Yarnell

Last seen for girls in 1982 at #6,371 · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553
Given to girls 57.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1977 · 41 births
Debut · girls
41 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
88
since 1977

Yarnell over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978peak #2,216, 1977peak #1,948, 1977girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1982#6,37110
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1979#9,0106#5,3556
1978#3,38822#2,56817
1977#2,21641#1,94825
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five girls were named Yarnell! It came in at #2,216, and was given to 41 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Yarnell
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1982
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1977 at #2,216 (41 births)
  • Births halved by 1979, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 37,394
  • Highest: 1 in 37,394 girls born in 1977 were named Yarnell (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 169,333 girls born in 1982 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 78.4% of all girls named Yarnell (69) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2008
  • Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s69#2,216 (1977)#4,871
1980s19#6,371 (1982)#6,580

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Yarnell in 1978

girls
#3,388
22 births · 1 in 69,630 girls
boys
#2,568
17 births · 1 in 96,579 boys

Top girls' names in 1978

  1. #1Jennifer56,314
  2. #2Melissa28,327
  3. #3Jessica26,102
  4. #4Amy23,213
  5. #5Heather22,270
  6. #6Amanda20,520
  7. #7Angela20,517
  8. #8Sarah19,976
  9. #9Michelle18,856
  10. #10Nicole17,279
  11. #3,388Yarnell22

Top boys' names in 1978

  1. #1Michael67,127
  2. #2Jason51,600
  3. #3Christopher47,236
  4. #4David40,684
  5. #5James39,894
  6. #6Matthew34,282
  7. #7John34,014
  8. #8Robert33,374
  9. #9Brian29,432
  10. #10Joseph26,663
  11. #2,568Yarnell17
More about 1978

girls

1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 69,630 of them was named Yarnell, which outranked 70.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yarnell
  1. #3,283Vilma23
  2. #3,283Yecenia23
  3. #3,283Youlanda23
  4. #3,388Yarnell22
  5. #3,388Abbigail22
  6. #3,388Aishia22
  7. #3,388Ambra22
  8. #3,512Abbi21
  9. #3,512Adelle21
  10. #3,512Aleesha21

Tied with 123 names at #3,388; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 4,240Aja#4,652#412
  2. 1,987Kiley#2,606#619
  3. 1,951Kylee#2,838#887
  4. 1,785Winter#2,780#995
  5. 1,620Kylie#2,026#406
Fallers
  1. 913Shalon#868#1,781
  2. 760Farah#854#1,614
  3. 519Tennille#462#981
  4. 398Shawnte#740#1,138
  5. 362Farrah#177#539

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 96,579 of them was named Yarnell, which outranked 62.0% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yarnell
  1. #2,473Tzvi18
  2. #2,473Vu18
  3. #2,473Walt18
  4. #2,568Yarnell17
  5. #2,568Agapito17
  6. #2,568Aharon17
  7. #2,568Akbar17
  8. #2,669Alexi16
  9. #2,669Alvino16
  10. #2,669Ana16

Tied with 100 names at #2,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 3,237Dequan#4,164#927
  2. 626Nicholaus#1,367#741
  3. 617Nicklaus#1,515#898
  4. 578Zebulon#1,476#898
  5. 424Anwar#1,121#697
Fallers
  1. 674Kinte#834#1,508
  2. 668Kunta#572#1,240
  3. 417Telly#732#1,149
  4. 415Lesley#937#1,352
  5. 310Amin#904#1,214

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1978