Jewell

Jewell is the 1,564th most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,347 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,347
Rank: 1,564th
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Medieval/Middle English form of a Breton saint's name, from obt Judicaël "lord" + "generous." The second element is from hael (“generous, bountiful”) and identical to Welsh hael (see that entry for details).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Black, not Hispanic 5.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jewell

Sally Jewell (born 1956)US politician, business executive and corporate director; former Secretary of the Interior and CEO of REI
Isabel Jewell (1907–1972)actress
Paul Jewell (born 1964)English footballer and manager
Richard Jewell (1962–2007)American police officer
Lisa Jewell (born 1968)British writer

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

Surnames like Jewell

Jewett

Also a first name

Jewell has been given to 34,126 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.