Haskell
Haskell was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 3,710 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haskell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haskell mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haskell is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “an English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.”
Compare Axtell, Askin, Haskin, Hasty, Astin.
As a surname in the Isle of Man, a variant of Castell, itself related to the above.
As a Jewish surname, from Khaskl, a Yiddish form of Yeḥezqel, see Ezekiel.
/ˈhæskəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haskell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,308, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
104 babies in 1919, the peak
Haskell peaked in 1919, when 104 boys were given it, #589 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,308 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,333 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,965 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,102 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,296 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,840 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,856 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,256 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,378 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,929 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #7,754 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,290 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,989 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,940 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,240 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,567 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,247 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,056 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,708 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,275 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,968 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,094 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,228 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,670 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,374 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,552 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,641 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,868 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,765 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,639 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,905 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,565 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,831 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,612 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,600 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,322 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 28 | #1,469 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,249 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,304 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,126 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,262 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,100 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,203 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,041 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,117 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,011 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 44 | #978 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 57 | #889 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 62 | #828 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,027 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 58 | #825 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 51 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 52 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 61 | #789 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 73 | #693 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 58 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 59 | #816 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 60 | #792 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 73 | #732 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 78 | #680 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 87 | #669 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 76 | #716 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 77 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 76 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 84 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 90 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 94 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 100 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 97 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 89 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 79 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 104 | #589 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 86 | #672 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 83 | #657 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 92 | #609 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 80 | #648 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 60 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 67 | #526 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 48 | #587 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 22 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 30 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1909 | 22 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 31 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1907 | 24 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1906 | 20 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 9 | #869 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 8 | #870 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 9 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 6 | #992 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,230 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,116 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,059 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 7 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 7 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 7 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 7 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 8 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 7 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 5 | #960 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Haskell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haskell has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 121 years of records.
Girls and boys named Haskell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haskell, and how old are they?
An estimated 952 Americans named Haskell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 48 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,071 people named Haskell (21 women and girls, 1,050 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below 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 Haskell born?
The states with the most babies named Haskell are Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 557 | not ranked | 8.2× |
| Texas | 376 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| South Carolina | 375 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Tennessee | 228 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Arkansas | 97 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 91 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Haskell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haskell is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 8.2 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 Haskell 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 4,870 babies since 1880, Haskell is the most given (76% 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 Haskell
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 Haskell and names like it
- Compare Haskell and HaskelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHaskell peaked in 1919.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haskell since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Haskell: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Haskell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Haskell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.