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    The surname Bignell

    An English place surname, carried by 608 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B254

    Bignell: #36,736 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bignell #36,736, 608 people Bignell: #36,736 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Bignell #36,736, 608 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bignell is more common than 77.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a small place near Bicester, from the Old English personal name Biċġa + hyll (“hill”).

    Bignell 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 608 people named Bignell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 507,805 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 577.

    #36,736
    rank among US surnames
    608
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.4%
    change since 2000 (was #36,572)

    Who is named Bignell

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

    97% of people named Bignell identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bignell

    Bignell has the Soundex code B254, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B254.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bignell come from?
    Habitational surname from a small place near Bicester, from the Old English personal name Biċġa + hyll (“hill”).
    How common is the surname Bignell?
    608 people in the United States had the surname Bignell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 507,805 Americans. It ranked 36,736th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bignell?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Bignell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bignell?
    Bignell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bignell getting more or less common?
    More common. 577 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 608 in 2010, up 5.4%.