Given name & surname
Larnell
“a generous man”
Larnell is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “a generous man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “a generous man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Larnell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 887
- 882 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 590 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Larnell’s family of names
Larnell has a related form in Larn. Larnell has a related form in Larndel. Larnell has a related form in Larndell.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Larrnelllikely variant
- Larnvariant
- Larnevariant
- Larndeyvariant
- Larndyvariant
- Larndievariant
- Larndivariant
- Larndelvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Larnell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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