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The ATWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,159 3997 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 2,084 2871 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +6075 -1126 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 393 4033 0.002 24
United Kingdom 658 7262 0.001 14
Top States for ATWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 758 2802 0.005 47
New York 475 4208 0.003 25
North Carolina 470 2448 0.006 58
Virginia 432 2184 0.006 61
Texas 422 5077 0.002 20
Top States for ATWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 190 1413 0.011 105
Kentucky 408 1458 0.010 101
Maryland 325 1954 0.006 61
Virginia 432 2184 0.006 61
North Carolina 470 2448 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of ATWELL

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 ATWELL 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 ATWELL 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 ATWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 547 6.7
White (Hispanic) 119 1.46
Mixed Race 105 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 69 0.85
Asian/Pacific 42 0.51
White (Caucasian) 7,277 89.19

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

Meaning of ATWELL in historical publications

ATWELL. See Wells.

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 ATWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATWELL.

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 ATWELL

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