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The POWEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 608 35106 0 2
United States (1880 census) 5,203 1164 0.01 104
Change since 1880 -4595 -33942 +N/A -102
Other Countries
Australia 1 330444 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POWEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 54 34764 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 53 32124 0.000 4
California 48 53058 0.000 1
Texas 48 31489 0.000 2
Illinois 33 47419 0.000 3
Top States for POWEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 10 6933 0.002 17
Delaware 9 18652 0.001 11
Alabama 23 14308 0.001 5
Vermont 3 33181 0.000 5
Massachusetts 30 29696 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of POWEL

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

Ethnic distribution of POWEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 387 63.65
Black/African American 188 30.92
White (Hispanic) 18 2.96
Mixed Race 9 1.48
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POWEL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of POWEL.

Similar names to POWEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POWEL.

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 POWEL

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