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The HALLOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,304 12367 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 1,182 4738 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +1122 -7629 -0.001 -16
Other Countries
Australia 62 21496 0 4
United Kingdom 131 21164 0 3
Top States for HALLOWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 380 4045 0.003 31
Maine 230 1116 0.018 180
Massachusetts 149 5571 0.002 23
New Jersey 134 7349 0.002 16
California 114 20564 0.000 3
Top States for HALLOWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 230 1116 0.018 180
Pennsylvania 380 4045 0.003 31
New Hampshire 36 4627 0.003 29
Vermont 16 5421 0.003 26
Massachusetts 149 5571 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of HALLOWELL

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 HALLOWELL 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 HALLOWELL 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 HALLOWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 47 2.04
Black/African American 40 1.74
Native American/Alaskan 38 1.65
Mixed Race 28 1.22
Asian/Pacific 8 0.35
White (Caucasian) 2,143 93.01

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

Meaning of HALLOWELL in historical publications

HALLOWELL. The same as Halliwcl! .

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 HALLOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALLOWELL.

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 HALLOWELL

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