Fellows Surname

23,865th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 22,680 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
England

Fellows Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the fellow,' a comrade, a companion, or simply a body, a sociable man; compare Goodfellow, Goodbody, Longfellow, &c. Fellows is the genitive.

John Felagh, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

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Fellows Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States10,5701:34,2914,275
England8,7341:6,379918
Australia1,3111:20,5922,855
Canada7481:49,2595,984
Wales4031:7,679852
New Zealand1771:25,5844,487
Scotland1551:34,5413,395
Brazil1011:2,119,54866,584
South Africa941:576,35944,560
Zambia531:299,05516,868
Northern Ireland451:41,0013,772
India311:24,744,045333,161
Singapore301:183,5907,666
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
Israel281:305,63026,425
Spain241:1,948,00252,403
France211:3,162,987209,042
Germany161:5,031,591189,895
Thailand131:5,433,719375,884
Jamaica121:239,1626,359
Malaysia111:2,681,293102,971
Netherlands71:2,412,45494,797
Norway51:1,028,45761,363
Greece41:2,769,948101,568
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
Russia41:36,030,764577,589
Angola41:6,747,3046,999
China31:455,773,85521,925
Hong Kong31:2,445,1619,595
Ecuador21:7,952,92334,269
Papua New Guinea21:4,076,858165,791
Venezuela21:15,102,03869,873
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Guam11:160,1214,893
Guernsey11:64,4392,137
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Libya11:6,243,9746,186
Senegal11:14,579,34211,705
Moldova11:3,561,36878,271
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Mozambique11:27,261,5697,432
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Saint Kitts and Nevis11:55,1991,294
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland71:632,83819,259
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4,0081:6,082934
Wales371:42,3902,234
Scotland201:187,1617,190
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,7291:13,4671,731

Fellows (43) may also be a first name.

Fellows Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the fellow,' a comrade, a companion, or simply a body, a sociable man; compare Goodfellow, Goodbody, Longfellow, &c. Fellows is the genitive.

John Felagh, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(Anglo-Scand.) Fellow’s (Son). Fellow orig. signified Partner, Associate, Companion; later, Common Man, Manservant, Husbandman [Middle English felaw(e, felow, Old English feó-laga, Old Norse félagi] We may attribute the disappearance of the sing. form Fellow as a surname to the partial disrepute into which the term has fallen.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) One who was a partner or associate of another; dweller near the newly cultivated land.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Fellows Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Fellows Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Fellows is found most in The United States. It may also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Fellows? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 23,865th most widely held last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 321,320 people. The last name Fellows occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 49 percent of Fellows live; 49 percent live in North America and 49 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 1,545,828th most commonly occurring forename at a global level, held by 43 people.

The surname is most common in The United States, where it is carried by 10,570 people, or 1 in 34,291. In The United States Fellows is most frequent in: California, where 11 percent are found, New York, where 8 percent are found and Texas, where 6 percent are found. Outside of The United States it occurs in 63 countries. It also occurs in England, where 39 percent are found and Australia, where 6 percent are found.

Fellows Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Fellows has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Fellows surname rose 283 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 218 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 1,089 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 775 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 86 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Fellows Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the surname is principally Catholic (86%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Fellows surname are 14.9% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 61.67% registered with the political party.

The amount Fellows earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 38.7% less than the national average, earning 212,135 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 48.52% more than the national average, earning R 352,932 per year; in United States they earn 3.31% more than the national average, earning $44,576 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.08% more than the national average, earning $58,668 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Fellowsh934/
Ffellows931/
Vellows861/
Fellaws861/
Fellews860/
Fillows860/
Flows8310/
Phellows804/
Flowsh771/
Villows711/
Flaws67893/
Flofs671/
Flowz671/
Flews671/
Flobs670/
Flawse6224/
Fillavs573/

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