The surname Fewell
A surname, carried by 2,247 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F400
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,247 people named Fewell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,403 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,097.
#13,505
rank among US surnames
2,247
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+7.2%
change since 2000 (was #13,333)
Who is named Fewell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
75% of people named Fewell identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 75%
- Black (not Hispanic) 19%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 2.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Fewell has the Soundex code F400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F400.
Questions
- How common is the surname Fewell?
- 2,247 people in the United States had the surname Fewell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,403 Americans. It ranked 13,505th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fewell?
- In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Fewell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Fewell getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,247 in 2010, up 7.2%.