The MARKEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,031	7606	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	777	6735	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+3254	-871	-0.001	-1
Other Countries
Australia	6	122693	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MARKEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	693	2186	0.006	56
Michigan	362	3307	0.004	36
Ohio	355	3955	0.003	31
California	338	8005	0.001	10
New York	309	6286	0.002	16
Top States for MARKEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	99	818	0.015	154
Pennsylvania	693	2186	0.006	56
Michigan	362	3307	0.004	36
Ohio	355	3955	0.003	31
Delaware	23	5916	0.003	29

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

Classification and Origin of MARKEL

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

Ethnic distribution of MARKEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	68	1.69
Mixed Race	41	1.02
Black/African American	24	0.6
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.4
Asian/Pacific	14	0.35
White (Caucasian)	3,868	95.96

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

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

Similar names to MARKEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARKEL.

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.