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The BOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 505 40761 0 2
United States (1880 census) 168 21884 0 3
Change since 1880 +337 -18877 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 100 14319 0.001 6
United Kingdom 579 8020 0.001 13
Top States for BOWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 53 22038 0.000 5
Wisconsin 52 16164 0.001 10
Washington 49 13711 0.001 8
Indiana 35 16739 0.001 6
California 24 76570 0.000 1
Top States for BOWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 8 12188 0.001 13
Wisconsin 52 16164 0.001 10
Washington 49 13711 0.001 8
Kansas 22 13015 0.001 8
Wyoming 3 16986 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of BOWELL

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 BOWELL 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 BOWELL 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 BOWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 433 85.74
Black/African American 47 9.31
White (Hispanic) 15 2.97
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.99
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BOWELL in historical publications

BOWELL. Probably the same as Boville and Bojde, which see. DeBowell. H.R.

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 BOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWELL.

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 BOWELL

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