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The POWELLS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 292 63812 0 1
United States (1880 census) 157 22953 0 3
Change since 1880 +135 -40859 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 8 101090 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POWELLS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 32 98673 0.000 1
Texas 32 52737 0.000 2
Michigan 30 59125 0.000 3
Illinois 24 77909 0.000 2
Tennessee 17 28812 0.000 3
Top States for POWELLS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 13 16064 0.002 17
Washington DC 6 17704 0.001 10
Michigan 30 59125 0.000 3
Tennessee 17 28812 0.000 3
Missouri 15 49113 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of POWELLS

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

Ethnic distribution of POWELLS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 225 77.05
White (Caucasian) 58 19.86
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POWELLS in historical publications

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

Similar names to POWELLS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POWELLS.

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 POWELLS

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