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The COVELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,005 9902 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 897 5984 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +2108 -3918 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 76 18124 0 5
United Kingdom 690 6988 0.002 15
Top States for COVELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 388 4913 0.002 20
Michigan 307 3864 0.003 31
California 301 8740 0.001 9
Florida 207 8926 0.001 13
Ohio 168 7879 0.001 15
Top States for COVELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 41 2461 0.007 67
New Hampshire 76 2454 0.006 61
Michigan 307 3864 0.003 31
South Dakota 23 5757 0.003 30
Maryland 140 4156 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of COVELL

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 COVELL 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 COVELL 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 COVELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 44 1.46
White (Hispanic) 42 1.4
Mixed Race 18 0.6
Asian/Pacific 11 0.37
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.17
White (Caucasian) 2,885 96.01

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

Meaning of COVELL in historical publications

COVELL. A corruption of Colville.

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 COVELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COVELL.

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 COVELL

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