Sowell

At the 2020 census, 8,848 Americans bore the surname Sowell — 3,899th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,800.

By the numbers

People: 8,848
Rank: 3,899th
How common: 1 in 33,800
Per 100,000: 3.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.3%
Black, not Hispanic 32.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sowell

Thomas Sowell (born 1930)American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Anthony Sowell (1959–2021)American serial killer and dead row inmate

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

Surnames like Sowell

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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.