Newell
Where Newell comes from
Newell hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1850Newell Sanders bornAmerican politician
- 1881Debut at its peak, #460#460 among boys with 14 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1882The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #943.
- 1904Newell A. George bornAmerican politician
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Newell Sanders · American politician, 1850–1939
- Newell A. George · American politician, 1904–1992
- Newell Mathews · American politician, 1835–1907
- Newell Brown · Canadian ice hockey player and coach, born 1962
- Newell Sill Jenkins · American dentist, 1840–1919
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.