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Ewell

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ewell has been given to 2,058 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Ewell, 1982

1 in 585,000

Ewell over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ewell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ewell means

Ewell is a given name.

The naming story behind Ewell

Wikidata records Ewell as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q97609066, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,051 boys were recorded with the name Ewell between 1882 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1919; its best national rank was #670 in 1903.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Ewell between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,984 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ewell?

Ewell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 585,000
6 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only
1 in 302,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
405,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ewell sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 405,219 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ewell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ewells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ewell was born before 1928 — so the typical Ewell is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (521).

Is Ewell rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (71)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#670
1903

Spellings of Ewell

Ewell is not the most common spelling — Will is, with 29.5% against Ewell's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ewell is used

Across 1910–2025, Ewell was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 72,702 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 16,667
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ewell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Ewell

People whose public names include Ewell, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ewell by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#670
1903
Peak year
1919
71 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
2,051
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,984
1919
Peak year
1919
7 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ewell

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ewell

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ewell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ewell

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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