Newell
Recorded 1881–2019 · United States
Newell was most popular in 1916, when 105 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,209 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,319 people named Newell.
Newell over time
How old is the name Newell?
Newell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 116 of the 145 years since. It was last recorded in 2019.
How many people are named Newell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,319 American births named Newell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 875 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Newell in 2025?
Newell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Newell getting more or less popular?
Newell is out of use. It averaged 5 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Newell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Newell is a boy’s name — 2.4% of the 3,319 Americans given it were girls and 97.6% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Newell?
Roughly 875 Americans named Newell are alive today — 26% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 70 years old, and half are between 56 and 80.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Newell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org