Fewer than five US boys were named Ewell in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #670, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 1919. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,764 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ewell in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 2,058 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 521 babies named Ewell.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US boys named Ewell.
Rarer spellings such as Ewel are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in British English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.