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The POWELSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 929 25060 0 3
United States (1880 census) 418 11108 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +511 -13952 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POWELSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 105 12353 0.001 9
California 96 23860 0.000 3
Michigan 92 13605 0.001 9
Missouri 73 9475 0.001 13
Oregon 48 8858 0.001 14
Top States for POWELSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oregon 48 8858 0.001 14
Missouri 73 9475 0.001 13
West Virginia 21 7050 0.001 12
Utah 25 8370 0.001 11
Alaska 7 15699 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of POWELSON

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

Ethnic distribution of POWELSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 893 96.12
Mixed Race 15 1.61
White (Hispanic) 11 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.75
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POWELSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to POWELSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POWELSON.

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 POWELSON

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