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    The surname Birdwell

    An English place surname, carried by 4,339 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B634

    Birdwell: #7,655 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Birdwell #7,655, 4,339 people Birdwell: #7,655 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Birdwell #7,655, 4,339 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Birdwell is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English bridd (“chick, chickhen; bird”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

    Birdwell 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 4,339 people named Birdwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,156 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,244.

    #7,655
    rank among US surnames
    4,339
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,248)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,647Carlsen4,34371,090
    #7,650McGuinness4,34271,107
    #7,652Lent4,34171,123
    #7,655Gober4,33971,156
    #7,658Kowal4,33771,189
    #7,660Hartford4,33671,205
    #7,662Desjardins4,33571,222

    Who is named Birdwell

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

    92% of people named Birdwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Birdwell

    Birdwell 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 Birdwell come from?
    From Old English bridd (“chick, chickhen; bird”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
    How common is the surname Birdwell?
    4,339 people in the United States had the surname Birdwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,156 Americans. It ranked 7,655th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Birdwell?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Birdwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Birdwell?
    Birdwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Birdwell getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,339 in 2010, up 2.2%.