Meaning and history
Howell is the anglicized form of Hywel.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
2008: 7 births, rank #9,871
2009: no US SSA record for this spelling
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: 6 births, rank #10,808
2012: 7 births, rank #9,709
2013: 5 births, rank #12,136
2014: no US SSA record for this spelling
2015: 7 births, rank #9,568
20162016: no US SSA record for this spelling
2017: 5 births, rank #12,246
2018: no US SSA record for this spelling
2019: 6 births, rank #10,803
2020: 14 births, rank #5,980
20212021: 9 births, rank #8,166
2022: 9 births, rank #8,300
2023: 10 births, rank #7,738
2024: 11 births, rank #7,257
20252025: 12 births, rank #6,803
Howell moved from #944 to #964 for boys between 1952 and 1954. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 93 births.