The MAXWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	65,779	458	0.024	244
United States (1880 census)	18,315	291	0.037	366
Change since 1880	+47464	-167	-0.013	-122
Other Countries
Australia	3,642	404	0.022	223
United Kingdom	11,790	499	0.026	257

Top States for MAXWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	5,476	445	0.026	263
California	5,123	625	0.015	151
Florida	4,508	409	0.028	282
Georgia	3,242	302	0.040	396
Ohio	3,010	389	0.027	265
Top States for MAXWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	2,936	277	0.052	516
Arkansas	1,254	262	0.047	469
Oklahoma	1,609	253	0.047	466
Georgia	3,242	302	0.040	396
Mississippi	1,036	422	0.036	364

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

Classification and Origin of MAXWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

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 MAXWELL 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 MAXWELL 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 MAXWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	388	0.59
Asian/Pacific	283	0.43
White (Caucasian)	49,854	75.79
Black/African American	12,932	19.66
Mixed Race	1,118	1.7
White (Hispanic)	1,197	1.82

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

Similar names to MAXWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAXWELL.

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.