Haskell
Haskell reached its high-water mark in 1919 at number 587, and has been recorded 3,710 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 980 Haskells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,710
- Estimated living today
- 980
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 587th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 10 / 3,700
How old the living Haskells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,710 babies given the name since 1883, about 980 are alive — 27 in every hundred. Roughly 110 of them are children and 520 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
The programming language is.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Haskells
- Haskell Curry (1900–1982)American mathematician and logician
- Haskell Wexler (1922–2015)American filmmaker
People named Haskell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Haskell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Haskell is most concentrated in Oklahoma (22.7×), South Carolina (14.3×), Tennessee (6.0×), Arkansas (5.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Haskell peaked:
Related names
Haskell against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.