The JEWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,143	1407	0.009	86
United States (1880 census)	5,626	1087	0.011	113
Change since 1880	+17517	-320	-0.002	-27
Other Countries
Australia	1,179	1400	0.007	72
United Kingdom	3,849	1619	0.008	84

Top States for JEWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	1,781	564	0.018	179
Ohio	1,672	807	0.015	147
Kentucky	1,572	383	0.039	389
California	1,455	2251	0.004	43
Florida	1,227	1731	0.008	77
Top States for JEWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,572	383	0.039	389
Maine	363	723	0.028	285
Vermont	128	826	0.021	210
West Virginia	360	798	0.020	199
New Hampshire	246	795	0.020	199

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

Classification and Origin of JEWELL

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 JEWELL 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 JEWELL 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 JEWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	349	1.51
Mixed Race	301	1.3
Native American/Alaskan	150	0.65
Asian/Pacific	88	0.38
White (Caucasian)	20,731	89.58
Black/African American	1,525	6.59

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

Similar names to JEWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JEWELL.

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.