Given name & surname
Hartwell
“from the stag's spring”
Hartwell is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the stag's spring.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the stag's spring.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hartwell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 652
- 652 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,050 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,050 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 270 as a first name in 2020; 6,652 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.
Hartwell’s family of names
Hartwell has a related form in Hartewel. Hartwell has a related form in Hartewell. Hartwell has a related form in Hartewil.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Harwellvariant
- Heortweillvariant
- Heortwiellavariant
- Harwilvariant
- Harwillvariant
- Harwelvariant
- Hartewilvariant
- Hartwilvariant
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People named Hartwell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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