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    The surname Seawell

    A surname, carried by 1,152 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S400

    Seawell: #22,359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Seawell #22,359, 1,152 people Seawell: #22,359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Seawell #22,359, 1,152 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seawell is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,152 people named Seawell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 268,008 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,149.

    #22,359
    rank among US surnames
    1,152
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #21,265)

    Who is named Seawell

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

    83% of people named Seawell identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Seawell

    Seawell has the Soundex code S400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Seawell?
    1,152 people in the United States had the surname Seawell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 268,008 Americans. It ranked 22,359th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seawell?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Seawell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Seawell getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,149 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,152 in 2010, up 0.3%.