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The FELLOWS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,745 4236 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 3,729 1647 0.007 75
Change since 1880 +4016 -2589 -0.004 -46
Other Countries
Australia 610 2643 0.004 37
United Kingdom 6,324 999 0.014 138
Top States for FELLOWS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 788 3889 0.002 23
New York 674 2917 0.004 36
Michigan 480 2444 0.005 48
Florida 436 4737 0.003 27
Ohio 428 3363 0.004 38
Top States for FELLOWS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 179 1108 0.014 145
Vermont 86 1297 0.014 141
Montana 99 1118 0.011 110
Maine 118 1968 0.009 93
Idaho 104 1771 0.008 80

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

Classification and Origin of FELLOWS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FELLOWS 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 FELLOWS 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 FELLOWS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 429 5.54
White (Hispanic) 128 1.65
Mixed Race 89 1.15
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.54
Asian/Pacific 34 0.44
White (Caucasian) 7,023 90.68

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

Meaning of FELLOWS in historical publications

FELLOWES. FELLOWS. Besides its more proper meaning of ' companion,' the word Fellow is used in some dialects to signify a young unmarried man, or a servant engaged in liusliandry. — Ilalliw. Chaucer uses the phrase " a proper felawe " to de

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 FELLOWS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FELLOWS.

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 FELLOWS

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