The surname Ledwell
An English place surname, carried by 625 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L340
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from a place in Oxfordshire, from Old English hlūd (“loud”) + wielle (“well, spring”).
Ledwell 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 625 people named Ledwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 493,993 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 610.
Who is named Ledwell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Ledwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 19%
- Two or more races 2.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Ledwell
Ledwell has the Soundex code L340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L340.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Ledwell come from?
- Habitational surname from a place in Oxfordshire, from Old English hlūd (“loud”) + wielle (“well, spring”).
- How common is the surname Ledwell?
- 625 people in the United States had the surname Ledwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 493,993 Americans. It ranked 35,912th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ledwell?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Ledwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Ledwell?
- Ledwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Ledwell getting more or less common?
- More common. 610 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 625 in 2010, up 2.5%.