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The ARNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 897 25775 0 3
United States (1880 census) 234 17168 0 5
Change since 1880 +663 -8607 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 116 12493 0.001 7
United Kingdom 732 6686 0.002 16
Top States for ARNELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 142 2190 0.006 64
California 69 33429 0.000 2
Idaho 67 2882 0.005 52
New Jersey 45 22513 0.001 5
New York 45 40527 0.000 2
Top States for ARNELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 142 2190 0.006 64
Idaho 67 2882 0.005 52
Wyoming 25 2795 0.005 51
Delaware 18 7499 0.002 23
Alaska 11 9364 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of ARNELL

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 ARNELL 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 ARNELL 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 ARNELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 723 80.6
Black/African American 96 10.7
Mixed Race 25 2.79
Native American/Alaskan 22 2.45
White (Hispanic) 22 2.45
Asian/Pacific 9 1

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

Meaning of ARNELL in historical publications

ARNOLL. ARNELL. ARNALL.

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 ARNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARNELL.

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 ARNELL

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