Hartwell
#10,046 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hartwell has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #10,046 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Hartwell, 2025
1 in 474,000
Hartwell over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hartwell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,046
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hartwell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hartwell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hartwells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hartwell was born before 1931 — so the typical Hartwell is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 110
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (146).
Is Hartwell 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
- −743
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,048
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 25.9%
- Peak was 1917 (27)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.6% average annual change
Spellings of Hartwell
Hartwell is not the most common spelling — Harrell is, with 40.7% against Hartwell's 10.1%.
Where Hartwell is used
Across 1910–2025, Hartwell was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,313,832 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 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. Hartwell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hartwell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hartwell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hartwell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.