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Lowell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #147 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #147 in 1931; #3,281 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lowell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,281 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #147.
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Lowell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #147 in 1931 · most boys in one year: 1,090 (1931).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Lowell, making it the 3,281st most common boys’ name of the year, up 472 places from #3,753 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 30 boys named Lowell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #147, reached in 1931. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,090. For comparison, it was #2,667 in 2015 and #276 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lowell in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 41,677 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 9,726 babies named Lowell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 381 US boys were named Lowell; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Lowel are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lowel (40).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lowell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 36 | #3,281 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,753 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,680 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,138 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,729 | 43 | #2,894 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,057 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,922 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,827 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,168 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,867 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,667 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #3,020 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,980 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,658 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,663 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,769 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,975 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,986 |
| 2007 | — | — | 39 | #3,004 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,958 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,881 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,127 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,660 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,860 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,034 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,909 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,743 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,979 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,875 |
| 1996 | — | — | 59 | #1,650 |
| 1995 | — | — | 65 | #1,485 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,763 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,390 |
| 1992 | — | — | 81 | #1,261 |
| 1991 | — | — | 86 | #1,199 |
| 1990 | — | — | 100 | #1,063 |
| 1989 | — | — | 96 | #1,069 |
| 1988 | — | — | 92 | #1,028 |
| 1987 | — | — | 83 | #1,050 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,996 | 95 | #942 |
| 1985 | — | — | 102 | #898 |
| 1984 | — | — | 97 | #889 |
| 1983 | — | — | 90 | #934 |
| 1982 | — | — | 123 | #800 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,384 | 102 | #884 |
| 1980 | — | — | 108 | #855 |
| 1979 | — | — | 130 | #762 |
| 1978 | — | — | 118 | #777 |
| 1977 | — | — | 124 | #765 |
| 1976 | — | — | 145 | #692 |
| 1975 | — | — | 130 | #728 |
| 1974 | — | — | 128 | #725 |
| 1973 | — | — | 155 | #640 |
| 1972 | — | — | 152 | #647 |
| 1971 | — | — | 212 | #556 |
| 1970 | — | — | 238 | #523 |
| 1969 | — | — | 234 | #508 |
| 1968 | — | — | 299 | #442 |
| 1967 | — | — | 272 | #459 |
| 1966 | — | — | 292 | #450 |
| 1965 | — | — | 323 | #430 |
| 1964 | — | — | 353 | #427 |
| 1963 | — | — | 358 | #426 |
| 1962 | — | — | 419 | #395 |
| 1961 | — | — | 393 | #400 |
| 1960 | — | — | 431 | #381 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,955 | 453 | #369 |
| 1958 | — | — | 449 | #364 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,179 | 449 | #360 |
| 1956 | — | — | 507 | #329 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,356 | 470 | #340 |
| 1954 | — | — | 471 | #333 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,166 | 491 | #318 |
| 1952 | — | — | 488 | #320 |
| 1951 | — | — | 566 | #287 |
| 1950 | — | — | 572 | #276 |
| 1949 | — | — | 636 | #256 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,693 | 623 | #260 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,056 | 670 | #256 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,248 | 650 | #239 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,869 | 603 | #223 |
| 1944 | — | — | 720 | #206 |
| 1943 | — | — | 806 | #200 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,045 | 885 | #178 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,228 | 865 | #176 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,146 | 870 | #172 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,062 | 924 | #166 |
| 1938 | — | — | 966 | #164 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,656 | 982 | #155 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,579 | 1,022 | #150 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,330 | 994 | #152 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,063 | 1,033 | #148 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,017 | 880 | #161 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,754 | 1,047 | #150 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,899 | 1,090 | #147 |
| 1930 | — | — | 721 | #191 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,668 | 700 | #193 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,066 | 758 | #188 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,189 | 757 | #193 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,312 | 725 | #195 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,051 | 709 | #196 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,468 | 819 | #175 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,824 | 710 | #194 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,070 | 698 | #197 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,573 | 690 | #199 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,816 | 670 | #198 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,915 | 608 | #204 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,449 | 555 | #225 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,153 | 551 | #205 |
| 1916 | — | — | 529 | #208 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,626 | 536 | #201 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,048 | 390 | #209 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,689 | 322 | #207 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,268 | 225 | #231 |
| 1911 | — | — | 104 | #252 |
| 1910 | — | — | 71 | #293 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,883 | 58 | #301 |
| 1908 | — | — | 60 | #279 |
| 1907 | — | — | 53 | #293 |
| 1906 | — | — | 54 | #268 |
| 1905 | — | — | 55 | #267 |
| 1904 | — | — | 32 | #355 |
| 1903 | — | — | 40 | #298 |
| 1902 | — | — | 28 | #376 |
| 1901 | — | — | 24 | #389 |
| 1900 | — | — | 35 | #381 |
| 1899 | — | — | 43 | #256 |
| 1898 | — | — | 28 | #370 |
| 1897 | — | — | 25 | #380 |
| 1896 | — | — | 29 | #362 |
| 1895 | — | — | 28 | #353 |
| 1894 | — | — | 17 | #490 |
| 1893 | — | — | 15 | #491 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #665 |
| 1891 | — | — | 12 | #545 |
| 1890 | — | — | 22 | #381 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #424 |
| 1888 | — | — | 9 | #736 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #660 |
| 1886 | — | — | 11 | #589 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #677 |
| 1883 | — | — | 8 | #703 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #628 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #957 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).