The history of your name

The BEDELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,794 5514 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 2,947 2072 0.006 59
Change since 1880 +2847 -3442 -0.004 -37
Other Countries
Australia 36 33123 0 2
United Kingdom 118 22328 0 3
Top States for BEDELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 712 2818 0.004 38
Florida 456 4638 0.003 29
California 442 6546 0.001 13
Michigan 400 3081 0.004 40
Texas 298 6726 0.001 14
Top States for BEDELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 116 935 0.019 191
New Hampshire 109 1883 0.009 88
Maine 99 2312 0.008 78
Missouri 227 3435 0.004 41
Michigan 400 3081 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of BEDELL

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 BEDELL 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 BEDELL 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 BEDELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 512 8.84
White (Hispanic) 110 1.9
Mixed Race 89 1.54
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.79
Asian/Pacific 40 0.69
White (Caucasian) 4,997 86.24

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

Meaning of BEDELL in historical publications

The same as Beadle, of which it is a corruption; an officer belonging to a court, university, ward, or parish.

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


Similar names to BEDELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEDELL.

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 BEDELL

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