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The surname Churchwell

A surname, carried by 2,758 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C624

Churchwell: #11,423 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Churchwell #11,423, 2,758 people Churchwell: #11,423 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Churchwell #11,423, 2,758 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Churchwell is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,758 people named Churchwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,945 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,731.

#11,423
rank among US surnames
2,758
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+1%
change since 2000 (was #10,725)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,414Brummer2,761111,824
#11,415Schober2,760111,864
#11,420Polzin2,759111,905
#11,423Greig2,758111,945
#11,428Popa2,757111,986
#11,430Eshelman2,756112,027

Who is named Churchwell

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

77% of people named Churchwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 77%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Churchwell

Churchwell has the Soundex code C624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C624.

Questions

How common is the surname Churchwell?
2,758 people in the United States had the surname Churchwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,945 Americans. It ranked 11,423rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Churchwell?
In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Churchwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Churchwell getting more or less common?
More common. 2,731 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,758 in 2010, up 1.0%.