The DARNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,775	1859	0.007	66
United States (1880 census)	2,531	2394	0.005	51
Change since 1880	+15244	+535	+0.002	+15
Other Countries
Australia	194	7774	0.001	12
United Kingdom	1,238	4392	0.003	27

Top States for DARNELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,607	570	0.028	282
Texas	1,410	1818	0.007	68
Kentucky	1,188	532	0.029	294
California	1,058	3113	0.003	31
North Carolina	1,005	1294	0.012	125
Top States for DARNELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,188	532	0.029	294
Tennessee	1,607	570	0.028	282
West Virginia	227	1240	0.013	126
Alabama	557	1378	0.013	125
North Carolina	1,005	1294	0.012	125

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

Classification and Origin of DARNELL

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 DARNELL 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 DARNELL 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 DARNELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	249	1.4
White (Hispanic)	247	1.39
Native American/Alaskan	91	0.51
Asian/Pacific	66	0.37
White (Caucasian)	15,848	89.16
Black/African American	1,276	7.18

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

Similar names to DARNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARNELL.

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.