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Lemuel

As a boy's name, Lemuel is understood to mean "devoted to God". It is not as common as it was in the 1920s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1921.

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EtymologyMeaning "devoted to God"
Births by decade
1900s
255
1910s
873
1920s
1,243
1930s
894
1940s
865
1950s
1,001
1960s
880
1970s
670
1980s
571
1990s
532
2000s
479
2010s
478
Peaked in the 1920s · 8,741 total U.S. births since 1900