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The EWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,651 6700 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,549 3733 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +3102 -2967 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 30 38184 0 2
United Kingdom 55 25850 0 1
Top States for EWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 533 1932 0.008 75
Utah 482 667 0.022 216
California 401 7533 0.001 12
Texas 262 7857 0.001 13
Florida 253 8310 0.002 16
Top States for EWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 482 667 0.022 216
Delaware 71 2189 0.009 91
Virginia 533 1932 0.008 75
Washington DC 32 2078 0.006 56
Maryland 232 2913 0.004 44

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

Classification and Origin of EWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 95 2.04
Mixed Race 89 1.91
Asian/Pacific 32 0.69
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.11
White (Caucasian) 3,001 64.52
Black/African American 1,429 30.72

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

Meaning of EWELL in historical publications

(origin: Local) A town in England. Ewhill, Cor. Br., signifies high, tall.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


EWELL. 1. A town in Surrey. 2. Ewald, an A-Sax. personal name.

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 EWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EWELL.

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 EWELL

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