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The MCDOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 47,526 652 0.018 176
United States (1880 census) 68 41279 0 1
Change since 1880 +47458 +40627 +N/A +175
Other Countries
Australia 1,230 1345 0.008 75
United Kingdom 5,814 1081 0.013 127
Top States for MCDOWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,334 991 0.010 98
Texas 3,218 808 0.015 154
North Carolina 2,850 392 0.035 354
Florida 2,512 800 0.016 157
South Carolina 2,391 231 0.060 596
Top States for MCDOWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 2,391 231 0.060 596
Delaware 341 330 0.044 435
North Carolina 2,850 392 0.035 354
Missouri 1,776 345 0.032 317
Kentucky 1,257 489 0.031 311

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

Classification and Origin of MCDOWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 737 1.55
White (Hispanic) 694 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 257 0.54
Asian/Pacific 181 0.38
White (Caucasian) 34,323 72.22
Black/African American 11,335 23.85

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

Meaning of MCDOWELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCDOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCDOWELL.

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 MCDOWELL

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