The O'DELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	30,951	1034	0.011	115
United States (1880 census)	6,281	973	0.013	126
Change since 1880	+24670	-61	-0.002	-11
Other Countries
Australia	202	7475	0.001	12
United Kingdom	1,658	3447	0.004	36

Top States for O'DELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,297	1472	0.007	68
New York	2,259	774	0.012	119
Texas	2,004	1290	0.010	96
Missouri	1,676	378	0.030	300
Michigan	1,612	638	0.016	162
Top States for O'DELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	994	248	0.055	550
Missouri	1,676	378	0.030	300
Oklahoma	866	538	0.025	251
Wyoming	112	472	0.023	227
Vermont	132	789	0.022	217

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

Classification and Origin of O'DELL

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 O'DELL 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 O'DELL 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 O'DELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	634	2.05
White (Hispanic)	548	1.77
Mixed Race	501	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	232	0.75
Asian/Pacific	161	0.52
White (Caucasian)	28,874	93.29

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

Similar names to O'DELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O'DELL.

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.