Dowell
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Dowell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 15,320 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Dowell is also written โดเวลล in Thai.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 3K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 15Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 428 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
15,320 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dowell in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Dowell is found
(measured from records)Dowell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 15,320 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Dowell | 428 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Dowell | 170 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Dowell | 96 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Dowell | 115 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Dowell | 17 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Dowell | 25 |
| DZ Algeria | #722 | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Dowell | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 18 | 1 in 3K | 18 | — | 3 |
15,320 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anthony Dowellb. 1943GBBritish ballet dancer
- Jake Dowellb. 1985USice hockey player from the USA
- Kieran Dowellb. 1997GBEnglish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dowell?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Dowell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dowell. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dowell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dowell is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dowell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,320 people named Dowell in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Dowell compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Dowell is the 722nd most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dowell?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dowellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dowell” — ranked 2192nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.