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The BIRDWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,244 7248 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 696 7387 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +3548 +139 +0.001 +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 36219 0 0
Top States for BIRDWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,224 1988 0.006 59
Tennessee 846 1048 0.015 149
California 257 10228 0.001 8
Alabama 216 2882 0.005 49
Oklahoma 191 2529 0.006 55
Top States for BIRDWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 846 1048 0.015 149
Texas 1,224 1988 0.006 59
Oklahoma 191 2529 0.006 55
Montana 48 2628 0.005 53
Alabama 216 2882 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of BIRDWELL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BIRDWELL surname.

Ethnic distribution of BIRDWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 129 3.04
Mixed Race 60 1.41
White (Hispanic) 50 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.87
Asian/Pacific 9 0.21
White (Caucasian) 3,959 93.28

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

BIRDWELL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BIRDWELL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BIRDWELL.

Similar names to BIRDWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRDWELL.

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 BIRDWELL

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