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The HOLLOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,318 5960 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,304 4362 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +4014 -1598 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 10 89849 0 1
United Kingdom 370 11054 0.001 8
Top States for HOLLOWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 636 1969 0.008 79
Texas 445 5012 0.002 21
Tennessee 388 2299 0.007 68
Indiana 331 2487 0.005 54
Virginia 303 3091 0.004 43
Top States for HOLLOWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 636 1969 0.008 79
Arkansas 210 1848 0.008 79
Mississippi 221 1918 0.008 78
Tennessee 388 2299 0.007 68
Montana 50 2739 0.006 55

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

Classification and Origin of HOLLOWELL

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 HOLLOWELL 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 HOLLOWELL 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 HOLLOWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 976 18.35
Mixed Race 81 1.52
White (Hispanic) 79 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 30 0.56
Asian/Pacific 20 0.38
White (Caucasian) 4,132 77.7

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

Meaning of HOLLOWELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOLLOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLLOWELL.

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 HOLLOWELL

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