The ABEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,243	1809	0.007	68
United States (1880 census)	3,479	1753	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+14764	-56	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	917	1791	0.006	56
United Kingdom	2,562	2405	0.006	56

Top States for ABEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,376	2307	0.004	41
Pennsylvania	1,241	1120	0.010	101
Florida	1,135	1825	0.007	71
Texas	1,021	2324	0.005	49
New York	1,014	1808	0.005	53
Top States for ABEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	989	714	0.016	163
Wisconsin	726	781	0.014	135
Alaska	84	918	0.013	134
North Dakota	79	1076	0.012	123
Minnesota	550	961	0.011	112

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

Classification and Origin of ABEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	763	4.18
White (Hispanic)	487	2.67
Mixed Race	266	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	151	0.83
Asian/Pacific	120	0.66
White (Caucasian)	16,452	90.18

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

Similar names to ABEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ABEL.

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.