Ewell
Ewell was last recorded in 1982, when 6 babies were given it; 2,058 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ewell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ewell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,873, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
78 babies in 1919, the peak
Ewell peaked in 1919, when 78 babies were given it (71 boys, #767 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 | #5,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,266 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,316 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,978 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 13 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,961 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,773 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,406 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,853 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,746 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,988 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,819 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,469 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,763 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,591 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,412 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,529 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,573 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,390 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,592 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,287 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,655 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,368 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,101 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,105 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 43 | #967 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 48 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 46 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 52 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 63 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 51 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 59 | #885 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 52 | #981 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 56 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 48 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 71 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 63 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 45 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 46 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 37 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 29 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 29 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 16 | #838 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,142 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 14 | #772 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 9 | #974 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 13 | #688 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 8 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 8 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 12 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 9 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 7 | #887 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 11 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 9 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 8 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 7 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 7 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 6 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 6 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 5 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 7 | #752 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 5 | #986 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ewell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ewell has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 95 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ewell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ewell, and how old are they?
An estimated 421 Americans named Ewell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 562 people named Ewell (13 women and girls, 549 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Ewell born?
The states with the most babies named Ewell are Texas, Kentucky and Arkansas, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 169 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 162 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Arkansas | 112 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Tennessee | 73 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 65 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 52 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 25 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Ewell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ewell is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ewell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,126 babies since 1880, Ewell is the most given (97% 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 Ewell
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 Ewell and names like it
- Compare Ewell and EwelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEwell peaked in 1919.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ewell since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Ewell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ewell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.