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The HOWDESHELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 430 46614 0 2
United States (1880 census) 78 37084 0 2
Change since 1880 +352 -9530 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOWDESHELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 114 6274 0.002 20
Texas 70 20111 0.000 3
Florida 34 42231 0.000 2
Indiana 25 22486 0.000 4
Illinois 23 52987 0.000 2
Top States for HOWDESHELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 114 6274 0.002 20
Alaska 10 9788 0.002 16
Wyoming 5 14607 0.001 10
Arkansas 17 12048 0.001 6
Indiana 25 22486 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of HOWDESHELL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HOWDESHELL surname.

Ethnic distribution of HOWDESHELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 410 95.35
Mixed Race 7 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 7 1.63
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

HOWDESHELL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HOWDESHELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOWDESHELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWDESHELL.

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 HOWDESHELL

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