The MICHELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,397	11954	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	73	38793	0	1
Change since 1880	+2324	+26839	+N/A	+8
Other Countries
Australia	634	2545	0.004	39
United Kingdom	749	6579	0.002	16

Top States for MICHELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	245	11715	0.001	12
California	229	17797	0.001	7
Florida	201	14777	0.001	13
New York	178	17919	0.001	9
Pennsylvania	158	15669	0.001	13
Top States for MICHELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	24	9594	0.003	31
Louisiana	97	8324	0.002	22
Indiana	113	10638	0.002	19
Connecticut	55	14423	0.002	16
Mississippi	45	7889	0.002	16

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

Classification and Origin of MICHELL

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 MICHELL 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 MICHELL 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 MICHELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	563	23.49
White (Hispanic)	185	7.72
Native American/Alaskan	66	2.75
Mixed Race	41	1.71
Asian/Pacific	22	0.92
White (Caucasian)	1,520	63.41

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

Similar names to MICHELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MICHELL.

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.