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The GREENWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,454 4990 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,101 5042 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +5353 +52 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 253 6076 0.002 15
United Kingdom 1,191 4552 0.003 26
Top States for GREENWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,893 293 0.047 468
Indiana 513 1444 0.008 84
Maryland 372 1645 0.007 70
California 354 7599 0.001 10
Florida 297 6538 0.002 19
Top States for GREENWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,893 293 0.047 468
Indiana 513 1444 0.008 84
Maryland 372 1645 0.007 70
Utah 156 1893 0.007 70
Tennessee 293 2702 0.005 52

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

Classification and Origin of GREENWELL

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 GREENWELL 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 GREENWELL 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 GREENWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 223 3.46
Mixed Race 62 0.96
White (Hispanic) 59 0.91
Asian/Pacific 26 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.17
White (Caucasian) 6,073 94.1

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

Meaning of GREENWELL in historical publications

GREENWELL. "The wide-spreading and ancient family of Greenwell are descended from Gulielmus Presbyter, who in 1183, as ajDpears from 'Boklon Buke,' held the lands of Greenwell in the parish of Walsingham, co. Durham, and whose son James assumed the name of the place of his inheritance," B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GREENWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREENWELL.

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 GREENWELL

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