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    The surname Yowell

    A surname, carried by 3,311 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Y400

    Yowell: #9,784 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yowell #9,784, 3,311 people Yowell: #9,784 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yowell #9,784, 3,311 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yowell is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,311 people named Yowell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,248 Americans. That is down 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,938.

    #9,784
    rank among US surnames
    3,311
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -15.9%
    change since 2000 (was #7,779)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,778Shenk3,31493,164
    #9,780Polak3,31393,192
    #9,783Stagg3,31293,220
    #9,784Yowell3,31193,248
    #9,786Loughlin3,30993,305
    #9,788Chico3,30893,333

    Who is named Yowell

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

    81% of people named Yowell identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Yowell

    Yowell has the Soundex code Y400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Yowell?
    3,311 people in the United States had the surname Yowell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,248 Americans. It ranked 9,784th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yowell?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Yowell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Yowell getting more or less common?
    Less common. 3,938 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,311 in 2010, down 16%.