How common is the surname Longwell?

2,124 people in the United States had the surname Longwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,360 Americans. It ranked 14,148th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Longwell?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Longwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Longwell getting more or less common?

More common. 2,027 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,124 in 2010, up 4.8%.

The surname Longwell

A Norman place surname, carried by 2,124 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Longwell is more common than 91.3% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

Anglicized form of a Norman habitational surname, from a village in Normandy called Longueville-sur-Scie, from Medieval Latin longa villa (“long village”).

Longwell is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,124 people named Longwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 145,360 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,027.

#14,148

rank among US surnames

2,124

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+4.8%

change since 2000 (was #13,717)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,139	Fujii	2,125	145,292
#14,148	Longwell	2,124	145,360
#14,152	Renick	2,123	145,429
#14,155	Lappin	2,122	145,497

Who is named Longwell

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

96% of people named Longwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Langwell

Surnames that sound like Longwell

Longwell has the Soundex code L524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L524.

Other Norman surnames

All 128 Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Longwell come from?: Anglicized form of a Norman habitational surname, from a village in Normandy called Longueville-sur-Scie, from Medieval Latin longa villa (“long village”).
How common is the surname Longwell?: 2,124 people in the United States had the surname Longwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,360 Americans. It ranked 14,148th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Longwell?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Longwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Longwell?: Longwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Longwell getting more or less common?: More common. 2,027 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,124 in 2010, up 4.8%.
What are other spellings of Longwell?: Langwell.