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The ELWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,287 6000 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 2,365 2563 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +2922 -3437 -0.003 -27
Other Countries
Australia 171 8684 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,570 3606 0.003 34
Top States for ELWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 429 562 0.034 336
California 377 7144 0.001 11
Massachusetts 347 2520 0.005 55
Florida 343 5688 0.002 21
Michigan 311 3795 0.003 31
Top States for ELWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 429 562 0.034 336
Vermont 59 1778 0.010 97
New Hampshire 93 2049 0.008 75
Massachusetts 347 2520 0.005 55
Washington 229 3198 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of ELWELL

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 ELWELL 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 ELWELL 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 ELWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 145 2.74
Native American/Alaskan 53 1
Mixed Race 43 0.81
Asian/Pacific 29 0.55
Black/African American 8 0.15
White (Caucasian) 5,009 94.74

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

Meaning of ELWELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to ELWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELWELL.

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 ELWELL

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