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The LOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,665 4832 0.002 25
United States (1880 census) 2,678 2279 0.005 54
Change since 1880 +3987 -2553 -0.003 -29
Other Countries
Australia 21 50661 0 1
United Kingdom 157 18905 0 3
Top States for LOWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 643 4327 0.002 19
Maine 580 359 0.045 455
Massachusetts 502 1712 0.008 79
Florida 495 3922 0.003 31
Michigan 410 2669 0.004 41
Top States for LOWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 580 359 0.045 455
Vermont 163 550 0.027 268
New Hampshire 155 1203 0.013 125
Massachusetts 502 1712 0.008 79
Rhode Island 81 1897 0.008 77

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

Classification and Origin of LOWELL

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 LOWELL 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 LOWELL 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 LOWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 121 1.82
White (Hispanic) 112 1.68
Mixed Race 97 1.46
Asian/Pacific 43 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 33 0.5
White (Caucasian) 6,259 93.91

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

Meaning of LOWELL in historical publications

LOWELL. Probably the same as Level.

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 LOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOWELL.

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 LOWELL

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