Cornwell

11,574 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cornwell in the 2020 census, making it the 3,030th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,800.

By the numbers

People: 11,574
Rank: 3,030th
How common: 1 in 25,800
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

From Old English crana (“cranes”) + well (“spring, well”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell (born 1956)American novelist, journalist, biographer
Bernard Cornwell (born 1944)British writer
Judy Cornwell (born 1940)English actress
Hugh Cornwell (born 1949)English musician and songwriter, ex-member of The Stranglers
John Cornwell (born 1940)English writer and journalist

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

Surnames like Cornwell

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.