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The CANTWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,478 4977 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,697 3453 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +4781 -1524 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 623 2590 0.004 38
United Kingdom 1,089 4914 0.002 24
Top States for CANTWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 722 3132 0.003 35
New York 516 3697 0.003 27
California 478 5822 0.001 14
Florida 387 5068 0.002 24
Pennsylvania 316 4749 0.003 26
Top States for CANTWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 225 2093 0.007 65
West Virginia 78 2749 0.004 43
Massachusetts 273 3110 0.004 43
Arkansas 111 3020 0.004 42
Missouri 228 3250 0.004 41

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CANTWELL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CANTWELL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CANTWELL in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CANTWELL by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CANTWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CANTWELL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CANTWELL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CANTWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 104 1.61
Mixed Race 70 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 44 0.68
Black/African American 21 0.32
Asian/Pacific 17 0.26
White (Caucasian) 6,222 96.05

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CANTWELL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CANTWELL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CANTWELL.

Similar names to CANTWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANTWELL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CANTWELL

The following words are slight variants of CANTWELL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.