How common is the surname Buell?

6,522 people in the United States had the surname Buell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,339 Americans. It ranked 5,338th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Buell?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Buell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Buell?

Don Carlos Buell, American Union Army General (1818–1898), followed by Bebe Buell.

Where is the surname Buell most common?

Wikidata records people named Buell in the United States and Canada.

Is the surname Buell getting more or less common?

More common. 6,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,522 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Buell

A surname, carried by 6,522 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buell is more common than 96.7% of them.

Origin

* As a Welsh surname, variant of Bowell, itself a variant of Powell (also see Howell). * As a Dutch surname, from the noun beul (“hangman”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,522 people named Buell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,339 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,462.

#5,338

rank among US surnames

6,522

people in 2010

2.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #4,985)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,333	Morelli	6,532	47,267
#5,335	Corn	6,528	47,296
#5,337	Sorto	6,523	47,332
#5,338	Buell	6,522	47,339
#5,339	Bias	6,518	47,368

Who is named Buell

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

93% of people named Buell identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Buells

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Don Carlos Buell
American Union Army General (1818–1898)
Bebe Buell
American model and singer, born 1953
William Buell Richards
1st Chief Justice of Canada (1815-1889)
Sarah Josepha Hale
American writer and editor (1788–1889)

Notable Buells come mostly from the United States (3) and Canada (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Buell

Buell has the Soundex code B400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B400.

Questions

Where does the surname Buell come from?: * As a Welsh surname, variant of Bowell, itself a variant of Powell (also see Howell). * As a Dutch surname, from the noun beul (“hangman”).
How common is the surname Buell?: 6,522 people in the United States had the surname Buell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,339 Americans. It ranked 5,338th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Buell?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Buell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Buell?: Don Carlos Buell, American Union Army General (1818–1898), followed by Bebe Buell.
Where is the surname Buell most common?: Wikidata records people named Buell in the United States and Canada.
Is the surname Buell getting more or less common?: More common. 6,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,522 in 2010, up 0.9%.