Excell — boys' name
412 babies named Excell in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1944. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Excell was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Excell in 1944 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Excell
The Social Security Administration has registered 412 babies named Excell between 1915 and 1999, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Excell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1944, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Excell performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Excell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 75 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Excell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Excell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 412 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Excell at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Excell popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1915
- Peak year (1944)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 85 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
412 total births across 85 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1944 with 15 births in a single year.
Excell popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1921 (Excell as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Excell accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Excell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 91 births that decade — 22% of Excell's all-time total
Excell decade highlights
- Peak decade 91 births
- Runner-up 82 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Excell's strongest decade
91 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Excell by state
Where Excell concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 75 | 18.2% |
75 of 412 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 18.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 18.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.