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Boys' name

From Old Norse Áskell; literal meaning unconfirmed

Haskell has been given to 3,710 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 104 recorded.

Babies named Haskell, 2024

1 in 418,000

Haskell over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haskell: meaning, origin, and history

From Old Norse Áskell; literal meaning unconfirmed

surname transfer

What Haskell means

Haskell is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* The programming language is named after American logician Haskell Curry (1900–1982). * As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Askell, from Old Norse Áskell.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Haskell (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Haskell is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Haskell comes through Old Norse Áskell.

Haskell is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Haskell is pronounced /ˈhæskəl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,700 boys were recorded with the name Haskell between 1883 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1919; its best national rank was #432 in 1908.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Haskell between 1917 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,904 in 1917.

How common is Haskell?

Haskell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haskell 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haskell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haskells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haskell was born before 1931 — so the typical Haskell is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
842
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (862).

Is Haskell 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (104)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#432
1908

Spellings of Haskell

Haskell is not the most common spelling — Markell is, with 37.1% against Haskell's 29.1%.

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 Haskell is used

Across 1910–2025, Haskell was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 32,380 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 4,348
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 6,667
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 16,667
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Haskell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Haskell

People whose public names include Haskell, 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.

Haskell 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
—
Best rank ever
#432
1908
Peak year
1919
104 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,700
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,904
1917
Peak year
1917
5 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haskell

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

HassellLatrellHashimJarrellPernellWindellCarnellMarkellKendellMarcellRondellMartellCardellRonnellDerrellHasanLyndellHasaniJerrellHassanKordellConnellHowellMontrell

Names with a curve like Haskell

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

OttisNewellClovisJewellClaranceElzieArvidAlvieEldredHermonCloydElwyn

Sibling names for Haskell

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

Explore around Haskell

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