Newell
Newell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 479th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191696 births
- Best rank
- #479in 1881
- Since 1881
- 3,318people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,239 boys have been named Newell in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 96 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 96 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 79 girls have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Newell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 62 | |
| 1890s | 68 | |
| 1900s | 95 | |
| 1910s | 608 | |
| 1920s | 704 | |
| 1930s | 513 | |
| 1940s | 459 | |
| 1950s | 311 | |
| 1960s | 163 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 54 | |
| 1990s | 51 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 24 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Newell was the 595th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Newell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clementpeak 1918
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Lambertpeak 1918
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Bertrampeak 1923
- Miltonpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.