Meaning & origin
What it means
Ewell goes back to Old English ēa, meaning “river.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ewell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,058
- 2,051 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 78 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1982. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 71 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 562 as a first name in 2020; 4,487 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Ewell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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