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    The surname Trowell

    A surname, carried by 1,262 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T640

    Trowell: #20,884 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Trowell #20,884, 1,262 people Trowell: #20,884 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Trowell #20,884, 1,262 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trowell is more common than 87.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,262 people named Trowell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 244,648 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,075.

    #20,884
    rank among US surnames
    1,262
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.4%
    change since 2000 (was #22,352)

    Who is named Trowell

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

    52% of people named Trowell identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 52%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Trowell

    Trowell has the Soundex code T640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T640.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Trowell?
    1,262 people in the United States had the surname Trowell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 244,648 Americans. It ranked 20,884th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Trowell?
    In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Trowell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Trowell getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,075 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,262 in 2010, up 17%.