The surname Ell
A surname, carried by 1,430 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex E400
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,430 people named Ell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,906 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,342.
#19,041
rank among US surnames
1,430
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+6.6%
change since 2000 (was #18,847)
Who is named Ell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Ell identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Ell has the Soundex code E400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E400.
Questions
- How common is the surname Ell?
- 1,430 people in the United States had the surname Ell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,906 Americans. It ranked 19,041st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ell?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Ell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Ell getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,430 in 2010, up 6.6%.