Shadwell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Shadwell, London, Norfolk and Yorkshire, from a place-name meaning ‘shallow spring’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃædwɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shadwell is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- ZASouth Africa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Shadwell, London, Norfolk and Yorkshire, from a place-name meaning ‘shallow spring’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Shadwell is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, person from Shadwell, London, Norfolk or Yorkshire, from a place-name meaning ‘shallow spring’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, from Shadwell, Middlesex, Norfolk, or West Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Roald de Schadewelle c 1176–90 YCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, so called, in London, Norfolk, and W Yorks. The first is named from OE sceald shallow + well(a) spring, stream (see Well), the latter two from scead boundary (see Shade i) + well(a). Shafran see Safran
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thomas Shadwellb. 1642GBEnglish poet and playwright (1642-1692)
- Lancelot Shadwellb. 1750barrister, died 1 January 1815
- Lancelot Shadwellb. 1779GBBritish lawyer and politician, 1779-1850
- Lancelot Shadwellb. 1808English academic and barrister, died 1861
- Charles Shadwellb. 1814GBBritish Royal Navy admiral (1814-1886)
- Charles Lancelot Shadwellb. 1840GBEnglish scholar and college head
- Arthur Shadwellb. 1854GBauthor and physician (1854–1936)
- L. C. Shadwellb. 1890GBbadminton player
- Graham Shadwellb. 1975GBBritish lawn bowler
- Anne ShadwellEnglish stage actress of the seventeenth century
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 353 | #14,649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 344 | #58,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 301 | #62,236 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #57,953 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #392,269 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Shadwell mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Shadwell, London, Norfolk and Yorkshire, from a place-name meaning ‘shallow spring’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Shadwell?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃædwɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shadwell have the most bearers?
- Shadwell is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shadwellThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shadwell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.