The CORNWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,893	2783	0.004	44
United States (1880 census)	3,379	1813	0.007	68
Change since 1880	+8514	-970	-0.003	-24
Other Countries
Australia	581	2798	0.004	36
United Kingdom	3,114	1999	0.007	68

Top States for CORNWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	902	3367	0.003	27
Virginia	825	1105	0.012	117
Ohio	715	1923	0.006	63
Florida	652	3160	0.004	41
Illinois	587	2179	0.005	47
Top States for CORNWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	825	1105	0.012	117
Kentucky	440	1305	0.011	109
Iowa	248	1425	0.008	85
Montana	67	1753	0.007	74
South Carolina	295	2127	0.007	74

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CORNWELL

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 CORNWELL 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 CORNWELL 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 CORNWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	616	5.18
White (Hispanic)	147	1.24
Mixed Race	137	1.15
Native American/Alaskan	54	0.45
Asian/Pacific	52	0.44
White (Caucasian)	10,887	91.54

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

Similar names to CORNWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORNWELL.

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.