Howell

Howell is the 286th most common surname in the United States, shared by 107,414 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,783.

By the numbers

People: 107,414
Rank: 286th
How common: 1 in 2,783
Per 100,000: 35.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Welsh Hywel.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 14.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Howell

C. Thomas Howell (born 1966)American actor and film director
Daniel Howell (born 1991)English YouTuber, radio personality, and writer
Dara Howell (born 1994)Canadian freestyle skier
Kirby Howell-Baptiste (born 1987)British actress
Leonard Howell (1898–1981)Jamaican Rastafari preacher
Lida Howell (1859–1938)American archer
Walter Howell (born 1929)Australian rower
Maria Howell (born 1950)American actress, singer and composer

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

Surnames like Howell

Also a first name

Howell has been given to 3,923 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. 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.