Cowell

6,565 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cowell in the 2020 census, making it the 5,148th most common in the country. That is about one person in 45,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,565
Rank: 5,148th
How common: 1 in 45,500
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

As an Irish and gv surname, shortened from McCawell, Anglicized from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), meaning "battle chief, " see Caulfield.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cowell

Cressida Cowell (born 1966)British writer

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

Surnames like Cowell

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.