Entry № 6052 · French origin

Lowell Lowell — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LOH-uhl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Little wolf (James Russell + Robert Lowell poets)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "little wolf (james russell + robert lowell poets)".

Lowell is from the Old French lou (wolf) + the diminutive -el — little wolf. Lowell, Massachusetts — historic American mill city (founded 1826); birthplace of Jack Kerouac and Bette Davis; the Lowell National Historical Park (1978) is one of the most-significant US heritage sites for industrial heritage. Lowell Mason (1792-1872) — American hymnwriter.

Little wolf (James Russell + Robert Lowell poets) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Lowell
Transliteration
Lowell
Pronunciation
/ ˈloʊ.əl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lowell stands.

Lowell does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lowells before her.

Real people
Amy Lowell
American Pulitzer Imagist.
1874 – 1925
Percival Lowell
Predicted Pluto.
1855 – 1916
In fiction
Lowell
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Lowell.

The number behind Lowell.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lowell reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.