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The DONNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,432 5004 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 2,217 2725 0.004 44
Change since 1880 +4215 -2279 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 190 7915 0.001 12
United Kingdom 788 6334 0.002 17
Top States for DONNELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 981 2454 0.005 47
California 538 5431 0.002 16
Tennessee 374 2301 0.007 66
North Carolina 367 3018 0.005 46
Florida 324 6293 0.002 20
Top States for DONNELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 157 1582 0.012 123
Tennessee 374 2301 0.007 66
Oklahoma 223 2216 0.006 65
Missouri 299 2594 0.005 53
New Hampshire 59 3150 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of DONNELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DONNELL 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 DONNELL 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 DONNELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 115 1.79
White (Hispanic) 115 1.79
Mixed Race 100 1.55
Asian/Pacific 24 0.37
White (Caucasian) 4,619 71.81
Black/African American 1,459 22.68

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

Meaning of DONNELL in historical publications

MAC DONNELL. Descended from Donald, Lord of the Isles, a common ancestor of the Earl of Antrim. This branch has been settled in co. Clare for more than two centuries.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DONNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONNELL.

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 DONNELL

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