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    The surname Fells

    A surname, carried by 1,956 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F420

    Fells: #15,080 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fells #15,080, 1,956 people Fells: #15,080 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fells #15,080, 1,956 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fells is more common than 90.7% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Fell.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,956 people named Fells in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 157,845 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,774.

    #15,080
    rank among US surnames
    1,956
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.3%
    change since 2000 (was #15,225)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,074Bolds1,957157,765
    #15,080Marmol1,956157,845

    Who is named Fells

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

    61% of people named Fells identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 61%
    • White (not Hispanic) 30%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 3.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Fells

    Fells has the Soundex code F420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fells come from?
    Variant of Fell.
    How common is the surname Fells?
    1,956 people in the United States had the surname Fells in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 157,845 Americans. It ranked 15,080th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fells?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Fells identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Fells getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,774 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,956 in 2010, up 10%.