Surname statistics for Newell

There are approximately 12,730 people named Newell in the UK. That makes it the 792nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 201 are named Newell.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12730792N/A201
United Kingdom (1881 census)47329370.016158
Change since 1881+7998+145+0.004+43
Other Countries
United States313171021N/A116
Australia2047790N/A125

Politics

People with the surname Newell are considerably less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Newell
Mark Newell
Michael Newell
Richard Newell
John Newell
Stephen Newell
Andrew Newell
Paul Newell
Robert Newell
Christopher Newell
James Newell
Peter Newell
Alan Newell
Steven Newell
Lee Newell
Simon Newell
Brian Newell
Raymond Newell
Ian Newell
Kevin Newell

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Newell
Sarah Newell
Susan Newell
Margaret Newell
Alison Newell
Amanda Newell
Michelle Newell
Jacqueline Newell
Christine Newell
Helen Newell
Rachel Newell
Patricia Newell
Claire Newell
Dawn Newell
Joanne Newell
Julie Newell
Nicola Newell
Carol Newell
Barbara Newell
Maureen Newell

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.