The HOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	109,634	249	0.041	406
United States (1880 census)	22,962	228	0.046	459
Change since 1880	+86672	-21	-0.005	-53
Other Countries
Australia	3,849	385	0.024	235
United Kingdom	15,675	365	0.034	341

Top States for HOWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	7,888	211	0.049	494
Texas	7,793	314	0.037	374
North Carolina	7,317	109	0.091	909
California	6,213	508	0.018	183
Georgia	6,093	143	0.074	744
Top States for HOWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	3,096	114	0.109	1,088
Alabama	4,375	131	0.098	984
North Carolina	7,317	109	0.091	909
South Carolina	3,457	148	0.086	862
Tennessee	4,880	140	0.086	858

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HOWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	735	0.67
Asian/Pacific	395	0.36
White (Caucasian)	89,143	81.31
Black/African American	15,952	14.55
Mixed Race	1,623	1.48
White (Hispanic)	1,798	1.64

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

Similar names to HOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWELL.

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.