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Lemuel
Say it: LEM-yoo-ul
Meaning
Hebrew 'belonging to God', a king in Proverbs 31.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in colonial America and in the 19th century.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 9,617 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 1,700 boys
- 64 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
| Hebrew | Lemuel |
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Famous bearers
- Lemuel Gulliver, hero of Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Lemuel Shaw, Massachusetts chief justice
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Colonial records of the Americas
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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