Newel
Newel was last recorded in 1935, when 7 babies were given it; 130 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Newel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Newel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,164, in 1935; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1921, the peak
Newel peaked in 1921, when 12 boys were given it, #2,587 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 7 | #3,164 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,003 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,648 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,487 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,688 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,054 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,637 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,776 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,694 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,751 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 12 | #2,587 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,134 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,603 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,825 | 9.9 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,218 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,603 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,428 | 13.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Newel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Newel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Newel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Newel, and how old are they?
An estimated 2 Americans named Newel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 107 people named Newel (2 women and girls, 105 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Newel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Newel?
Newel is a less common spelling of Newell: SSA has recorded 130 Newel and 3,319 Newell since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,449 babies since 1880, Newel is the second most given (3.8% 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 Newel
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 Newel and names like it
- Compare Newel and NewellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNewel peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Newel.
- Names starting with NMost given first.