The NOWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,281	6004	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	1,165	4797	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+4116	-1207	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	249	6189	0.002	15
United Kingdom	1,461	3847	0.003	32

Top States for NOWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	560	3855	0.003	27
Mississippi	551	786	0.019	194
North Carolina	428	2505	0.005	53
California	348	7589	0.001	10
Florida	313	6097	0.002	20
Top States for NOWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	551	786	0.019	194
Delaware	74	1861	0.009	94
Maine	71	2843	0.006	56
North Carolina	428	2505	0.005	53
New Hampshire	55	3174	0.004	45

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

Classification and Origin of NOWELL

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 NOWELL 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 NOWELL 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 NOWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	832	15.75
White (Hispanic)	98	1.86
Mixed Race	92	1.74
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.38
Asian/Pacific	16	0.3
White (Caucasian)	4,223	79.97

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

Similar names to NOWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOWELL.

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.