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The CROMWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,687 4267 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 2,578 2362 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +5109 -1905 -0.002 -24
Other Countries
Australia 52 24710 0 3
United Kingdom 650 7320 0.001 14
Top States for CROMWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 616 4904 0.002 18
Maryland 578 1092 0.011 109
New York 428 4727 0.002 23
Ohio 409 3598 0.004 36
Florida 404 5173 0.003 25
Top States for CROMWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 110 1028 0.012 122
Maryland 578 1092 0.011 109
Maine 118 2020 0.009 93
Idaho 95 2019 0.007 73
South Dakota 51 2444 0.007 68

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

Classification and Origin of CROMWELL

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 CROMWELL 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 CROMWELL 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 CROMWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 168 2.19
Native American/Alaskan 140 1.82
White (Hispanic) 113 1.47
Asian/Pacific 27 0.35
White (Caucasian) 5,301 68.96
Black/African American 1,938 25.21

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

Meaning of CROMWELL in historical publications

CROMWELL. The family of the Protector were of Welsh origin, and bore the name of Williams. Though of ancient descent they abandoned that surname at the instigation of King Henry VIII., and Sir Richard Williams, the Protector's lineal ancestor, being sister's son to Thomas C, the noted vicar-general, adopted his uncle's family name. That person Avas of humble origin, and there is no proof of any connection with the I,ords Cromwell of Tateshall castle, co. Lincoln, whose pedi

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


(origin: Br. Local) From crom, crooked, and hal or hayle, low, level land bordering on the river or sea. Lowlands on the bend of a river.

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


Similar names to CROMWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CROMWELL.

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 CROMWELL

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