How common is the surname Showell?

806 people in the United States had the surname Showell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 383,059 Americans. It ranked 29,334th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Showell getting more or less common?

Less common. 887 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 806 in 2010, down 9.1%.

The surname Showell

An English place surname, carried by 806 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Showell is more common than 81.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from two minor places near Little Tew and Steeple Barton, both in Oxfordshire, from Old English seofon (“seven”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

Showell 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 806 people named Showell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 383,059 Americans. That is down 9.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 887.

#29,334

rank among US surnames

806

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-9.1%

change since 2000 (was #25,991)

Who is named Showell

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

66% of people named Showell identified as Black (not Hispanic), 27% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.7% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 66%
White (not Hispanic) 27%
Two or more races 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Showell

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Showell come from?: Habitational surname from two minor places near Little Tew and Steeple Barton, both in Oxfordshire, from Old English seofon (“seven”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
How common is the surname Showell?: 806 people in the United States had the surname Showell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 383,059 Americans. It ranked 29,334th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Showell?: In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Showell identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 27% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Showell?: Showell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Showell getting more or less common?: Less common. 887 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 806 in 2010, down 9.1%.