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The ROSWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 607 35153 0 2
United States (1880 census) 415 11169 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +192 -23984 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 113 22763 0 2
Top States for ROSWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 56 30707 0.000 4
Texas 47 29602 0.000 2
New Jersey 43 25019 0.001 5
Ohio 43 30147 0.000 4
Arkansas 38 7489 0.001 14
Top States for ROSWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 14 10537 0.002 18
Vermont 9 10315 0.001 15
Arkansas 38 7489 0.001 14
Wyoming 6 12798 0.001 12
Colorado 36 16182 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ROSWELL

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 ROSWELL 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 ROSWELL 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 ROSWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 547 90.12
Black/African American 40 6.59
Mixed Race 8 1.32
White (Hispanic) 5 0.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ROSWELL in historical publications

Rosveldt, the rose-field; Rosville, the town on the heath or promontory.

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


ROSWELL. Said to be a con'uption of the French Eosseville. It is therefore local, but I know not the place. Kent, in his Grammar of Heraldry, speaks of the Eev. Sam. Eosewell, of London, M.A., as "descended from the Eosewells, of Somersetshire, Vviltshire, and Devon, who came in with the Conqueror."

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 ROSWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROSWELL.

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 ROSWELL

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