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    The surname Bridwell

    An English place surname, carried by 3,173 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B634

    Bridwell: #10,167 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bridwell #10,167, 3,173 people Bridwell: #10,167 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bridwell #10,167, 3,173 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bridwell is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Perhaps a habitational surname from a minor place in the civil parish of Uffculme, from Old English bridd (“bird”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

    Bridwell 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 3,173 people named Bridwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,304 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,286.

    #10,167
    rank among US surnames
    3,173
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #9,128)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,159Goldsberry3,17697,212
    #10,164Harnish3,17597,243
    #10,166Wenner3,17497,273
    #10,167Feathers3,17397,304
    #10,172Hott3,17297,335
    #10,174Labrie3,17197,365
    #10,176Swinford3,17097,396

    Who is named Bridwell

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

    91% of people named Bridwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • 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

    • Briddell

    Surnames that sound like Bridwell

    Bridwell 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 Bridwell come from?
    Perhaps a habitational surname from a minor place in the civil parish of Uffculme, from Old English bridd (“bird”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
    How common is the surname Bridwell?
    3,173 people in the United States had the surname Bridwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,304 Americans. It ranked 10,167th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bridwell?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Bridwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bridwell?
    Bridwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bridwell getting more or less common?
    Less common. 3,286 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,173 in 2010, down 3.4%.
    What are other spellings of Bridwell?
    Briddell.