Ewell

Ewell is the 7,182nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,487 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 66,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,487
Rank: 7,182nd
How common: 1 in 66,600
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

From Old English ēa (“river”) + well (“spring, source”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.0%
Black, not Hispanic 29.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ewell

Kayla Ewell (born 1985)American actress
Tom Ewell (1909–1994)American actor
Richard S. Ewell (1817–1872)Confederate Army general
Barney Ewell (1918–1996)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Ewell

Ewert
Ewers

Also a first name

Ewell has been given to 2,058 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1919. 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.