Buell
Buell was last recorded in 1975, when 5 babies were given it; 840 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Buell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Buell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,570, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1920, the peak
Buell peaked in 1920, when 38 boys were given it, #1,160 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #5,570 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,998 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,650 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,679 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,099 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,579 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,546 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,121 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,864 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,131 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 6 | #3,398 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,223 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,351 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,629 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,517 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,557 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,586 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,206 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,777 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,050 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,354 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,092 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,474 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,827 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,698 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,075 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,265 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,141 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,461 | 22.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,721 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,701 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,562 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,010 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,657 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,271 | 29.3 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,474 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,457 | 23.3 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,294 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,646 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,898 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,267 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,160 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,143 | 37.8 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,345 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,449 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,419 | 27.0 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,185 | 35.4 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,448 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,175 | 37.1 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,367 | 30.2 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,440 | 30.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,366 | 34.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,256 | 37.8 |
| 1898 | 7 | #897 | 57.1 |
| 1896 | 6 | #995 | 50.2 |
| 1892 | 6 | #972 | 49.2 |
| 1889 | 5 | #991 | 45.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Buell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Buell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Buell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Buell, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Buell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 71 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Buell (6 women and girls, 220 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,975 babies since 1880, Buell is the second most given (43% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Buell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Buell and names like it
- Compare Buell and BuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBuell peaked in 1920.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Buell since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Buell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Buell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.