The POWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	216,553	91	0.08	803
United States (1880 census)	42,654	105	0.085	853
Change since 1880	+173899	+14	-0.005	-50
Other Countries
Australia	8,642	132	0.053	529
United Kingdom	50,556	81	0.11	1,101

Top States for POWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	16,416	120	0.079	787
Florida	14,631	82	0.092	915
California	13,585	204	0.040	401
North Carolina	11,670	58	0.145	1,450
Georgia	11,368	58	0.139	1,389
Top States for POWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	8,151	55	0.183	1,833
South Carolina	6,654	61	0.166	1,659
Mississippi	4,358	70	0.153	1,532
North Carolina	11,670	58	0.145	1,450
Georgia	11,368	58	0.139	1,389

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

Classification and Origin of POWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POWELL 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 POWELL 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 POWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	823	0.38
White (Caucasian)	151,500	69.96
Black/African American	56,239	25.97
Mixed Race	3,703	1.71
White (Hispanic)	3,053	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	1,213	0.56

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

Similar names to POWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POWELL.

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.