Blackwell

44,711 people in the United States were counted with the surname Blackwell in the 2020 census, making it the 759th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,685.

By the numbers

People: 44,711
Rank: 759th
How common: 1 in 6,685
Per 100,000: 15.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Blackwell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.8%
Black, not Hispanic 27.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910)American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist
Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950)American feminist, journalist and human rights advocate
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921)American minister
Emily Blackwell (1826–1910)English-born American physician
Chris Blackwell (born 1937)English record producer
David Blackwell (1919–2010)American mathematician
Carlyle Blackwell (1884–1955)American silent film actor, director, and producer
Otis Blackwell (1931–2002)American songwriter

People named Blackwell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Blackwell

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.