The COWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,110	5248	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	1,567	3692	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+4543	-1556	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	1,089	1520	0.007	67
United Kingdom	5,292	1180	0.012	115

Top States for COWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	582	4774	0.002	17
Ohio	441	3075	0.004	39
Michigan	393	2869	0.004	40
Florida	332	5752	0.002	21
Pennsylvania	271	5447	0.002	22
Top States for COWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	142	2396	0.005	53
Iowa	141	2763	0.005	48
Michigan	393	2869	0.004	40
Ohio	441	3075	0.004	39
Missouri	205	3541	0.004	37

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COWELL

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 COWELL 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 COWELL 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 COWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	571	9.35
Mixed Race	106	1.73
White (Hispanic)	91	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	46	0.75
Asian/Pacific	33	0.54
White (Caucasian)	5,263	86.14

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

Similar names to COWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COWELL.

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.