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    The surname Bardwell

    An English place surname, carried by 2,946 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B634

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bardwell is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either the Old English personal name Bearda or breord (“brim, rim, edge”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

    Bardwell is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,946 people named Bardwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,802 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,786.

    #10,812
    rank among US surnames
    2,946
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #10,570)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,806Mahaney2,949104,695
    #10,808Hoskinson2,948104,731
    #10,809Horak2,947104,766
    #10,812Romain2,946104,802
    #10,815Kloss2,945104,837

    Who is named Bardwell

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    84% of people named Bardwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Bardell
    • Bodwell

    Surnames that sound like Bardwell

    Bardwell has the Soundex code B634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B634.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bardwell come from?
    From either the Old English personal name Bearda or breord (“brim, rim, edge”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
    How common is the surname Bardwell?
    2,946 people in the United States had the surname Bardwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,802 Americans. It ranked 10,812th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bardwell?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Bardwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bardwell?
    Bardwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bardwell getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,946 in 2010, up 5.7%.
    What are other spellings of Bardwell?
    Bardell and Bodwell.