Bagwell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps ‘person from Backwell’, Somerset, or perhaps a different form of Bakewell
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbæˌɡwɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bagwell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 18th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 51K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈83,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
perhaps ‘person from Backwell’, Somerset, or perhaps a different form of Bakewell
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bagwell 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bagwell | 5 |
| US United States | — | 10,324 | 1 in 32K | 11K | Bagwell | 379 |
| LR Liberia | #18 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Bagwell | 2 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Bagwell | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Bagwell | 93 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Bagwell | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bagwell | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bagwell is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘dweller by badger stream’; first attested Geoffrey Bagwell 1374–5 NorwLt
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Geoffrey Bagwell 1374–5 NorwLt; John Bagwell, Nicholas Baggwell 1642 PrD. ‘Dweller by badger stream’, OE *bagga, wiella. Sometimes, perhaps, for BACKWELL.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, In Co. Tipperary since late seventeenth century, when the well-known Clonmel family was established there
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Bagwellb. 1776GBBritish politician
- John Bagwellb. 1811GBIrish politician (1811-1883)
- Richard Bagwellb. 1840IEIrish historian, born 1840 (1840–1918)
- Bill Bagwellb. 1895USMajor League Baseball player
- Wendy Bagwellb. 1925USGospel singer (1925-1996)
- Kyle Bagwellb. 1961USAmerican economist
- Edmund Bagwellb. 1966GBBritish Comics Artist
- Jeff Bagwellb. 1968USAmerican Hall of Fame baseball player
- Buff Bagwellb. 1970USAmerican professional wrestler and actor
- Shaune Bagwellb. 1973USAmerican-born fashion model and actress
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,142 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,460 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.8K | #3,547 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bagwell mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps ‘person from Backwell’, Somerset, or perhaps a different form of Bakewell Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bagwell?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbæˌɡwɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bagwell have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Bagwell in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bagwell.
- How common is the name Bagwell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,324 people named Bagwell in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Bagwell compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Bagwell is the 18th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bagwellThe 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, “Bagwell” — the 18th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.