Last Name COXWELL

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Meaning Local: Of Coggeshall, a parish in the diocese of St. Albans. Wherever a monastery was founded it drew together a community, and this in the surname period was likely to foster a local nomenclature. The early Coggeshals by corruption became Cogswell and Coxwell. The surname was confined to a limited radius of the place, which was of considerable importance for a longest time.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 27,848 (2000 US census) 73,964 (1990 US census)
Count 812 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96.31%, or 782 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.99%, or 8 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.72%, or 14 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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