Given name & surname
Newell
“from the new manor”
Newell is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the new manor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the new manor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Irish Ó Tnúthghail (“descendant of Tnúthgal”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Newell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,319
- 3,240 boys · 79 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 105 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 9 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 96 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,192 as a first name in 2020; 31,405 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.
Newell’s family of names
Newell has a related form in Neuwel. Newell has a related form in Neuwele. Newell has a related form in Neuwell.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Noelvariant · English
- Nevillevariant · English
- Newelvariant
- Nuellvariant
- Niewheallvariant
- Neuwellevariant
- Neuwelevariant
- Neuwelvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Newell
- N. C. WyethAmerican illustrator and painter (1882–1945)
- Newell SandersAmerican politician (1850–1939)
- Newell A. GeorgeAmerican politician (1904–1992)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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