Caldwell

Caldwell is the 340th most common surname in the United States, shared by 90,100 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,317.

By the numbers

People: 90,100
Rank: 340th
How common: 1 in 3,317
Per 100,000: 30.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English cald (“cold”) + wielle (“well, spring”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.5%
Black, not Hispanic 25.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987)American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayist
Tracy Caldwell Dyson (born 1969)American chemist and NASA astronaut
Gary Caldwell (born 1982)Scottish association football manager
Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985)American novelist
Zoe Caldwell (1933–2020)Australian actress
Steven Caldwell (born 1980)Scottish footballer
Hubert A. Caldwell (1907–1972)American rower
Robert Caldwell (1814–1891)British orientalist and dravidologist

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

Surnames like Caldwell

Also a first name

Caldwell has been given to 636 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.