About the surname
It is a prevailing family identifier; Howell easily makes the cut for the top 1,000 last names in the US. Based on the decennial census, a total of 107,414 citizens answer to this family identifier. Visualized another way, this group could fill one of the nation's largest arenas to absolute capacity. From a probability standpoint, about one out of 3,100 people in the country shares this last name. Racial distribution data shows a heavy skew toward White individuals, dwarfing the secondary Black or African American segment by upwards of 61 percentage points.