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The ISBELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,709 3367 0.004 36
United States (1880 census) 1,859 3181 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +7850 -186 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 30 38493 0 2
United Kingdom 306 12576 0.001 7
Top States for ISBELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,904 363 0.043 428
Texas 1,498 1658 0.007 72
Tennessee 770 1168 0.014 135
California 650 4527 0.002 19
Missouri 318 2376 0.006 57
Top States for ISBELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,904 363 0.043 428
Tennessee 770 1168 0.014 135
Arkansas 256 1413 0.010 96
Oklahoma 282 1710 0.008 82
Texas 1,498 1658 0.007 72

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

Classification and Origin of ISBELL

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 ISBELL 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 ISBELL 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 ISBELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 460 4.74
White (Hispanic) 170 1.75
Mixed Race 131 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.5
Asian/Pacific 29 0.3
White (Caucasian) 8,870 91.36

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

Meaning of ISBELL in historical publications

ISBELL. In H.R. Isabel. See Female Christian Names.

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 ISBELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ISBELL.

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 ISBELL

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