The surname Elwell
An English place surname, carried by 5,326 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex E440
Origin
English origin
From Old English hæl (“omen”) + wielle (“well, spring”), presumably in reference to a pagan river worship.
Elwell 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 5,326 people named Elwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 57,969 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,287.
Who is named Elwell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Elwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Elwell come from?
- From Old English hæl (“omen”) + wielle (“well, spring”), presumably in reference to a pagan river worship.
- How common is the surname Elwell?
- 5,326 people in the United States had the surname Elwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,969 Americans. It ranked 6,391st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Elwell?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Elwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Elwell?
- Elwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Elwell getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,287 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,326 in 2010, up 0.7%.