Newell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of Neville; or person who lives or works in the “new hall”
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Newell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.5K
- CACanada≈1 in 9.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 483 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Different form of Neville; or person who lives or works in the “new hall”.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Newell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Newell | 11 |
| US United States | #909 | 32,909 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Newell | 483 |
| GB United Kingdom | #658 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 10K | Newell | 229 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Newell | 3 |
| CA Canada | #873 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Newell | 173 |
| AU Australia | #734 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 1 | Newell | 165 |
| IE Ireland | #703 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Newell | 67 |
| JM Jamaica | #219 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Newell | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Newell is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, for Nevill or Noel; first attested Thomas de Newell 1201 FFEss
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Tnuthghall ‘descendant of TnuthgaV, a personal name composed of the elements tnuth ‘desire’, ‘envy’ -t- gal ‘valor’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Neville.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Noel.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In enm, alternative form of Nowel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Norman D. Newellb. 1909USAmerican paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History (1909–2005)
- Norman Newellb. 1919GBEnglish record producer, songwriter and lyricist (1919-2004)
- Allen Newellb. 1927USAmerican cognitive scientist (1927–1992)
- David Newellb. 1938USAmerican actor (born 1938)
- Mike Newellb. 1942GBBritish director and producer (born 1942)
- Gabe Newellb. 1962USAmerican computer programmer and businessman
- Nick Newellb. 1986USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
- Alex Newellb. 1992USAmerican actor and singer (born 1992)
- Tegan Noxb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameWelsh professional wrestler
- Kimberly Newellb. 1995CACanadian ice hockey goaltender (born 1995)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 33K | #1,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 31K | #1,098 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 31K | #1,021 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10K | #733 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Newell mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of Neville; or person who lives or works in the “new hall”. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Newell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,909 people named Newell in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Newell compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Newell is the 219th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
- In which country does Newell have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Newell in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled newell.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/newellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Newell” — the 219th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.