Sewall
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sewall has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 6 recorded.
Babies named Sewall, 1919
1 in 352,000
Sewall 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sewall?
Sewall had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1919, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1919
- 1 in 352,000
- 6 of 2,110,182 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 163,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1919
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 243,779 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sewall sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1919 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 243,779 children born in 1919 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sewall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sewalls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sewall was born before 1919 — so the typical Sewall is around 106 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Sewall 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
- —
- 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 (6)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Sewall
Sewall is not the most common spelling — Jewell is, with 40.8% against Sewall's 0.10%.
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 Sewall is used
Across 1910–2025, Sewall was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 153,732 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Maine1 in 100,000
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. Sewall has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sewall by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sewall
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sewall
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.