Bagwell
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bagwell is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 14th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: perhaps ‘person from Backwell’, Somerset, or perhaps a different form of Bakewell.
- USUnited States1 in 32K◐
- CACanada1 in 52K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 68K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈10K ●
- Sources
- 335 ●
- 1 in 32K ◐
across 1 country
97K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,324 | 84K rec. | 1 in 32K | 11K | Bagwell | 335 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,432 | 3.3K rec. | — | listed | Bagwell | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,451 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,023 | 1K rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 33 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 570 | 585 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | 526 | 528 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 10 |
| LR Liberia | #14 | 415 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 345 | 347 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 3 |
| CN China | — | 344 | 345 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 340 | 333 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 14 |
| FI Finland | — | 239 | 247 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | 131 | 126 rec. | — | — | Bagwell | 4 |
Roughly 10K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 32K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English93K85%
- Spanish3K3%
- 2.4K2%
- Burmese1.4K1%
- Urdu1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 93,362 | 85% |
| Spanish | 2,981 | 3% |
| 2,428 | 2% | |
| Burmese | 1,381 | 1% |
| Urdu | 1,034 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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●
- 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).
Evidence●
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 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bagwell?
- We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Bagwell (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Bagwell have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Bagwell in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bagwell.
- How common is Bagwell compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Bagwell is the 14th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Bagwell mean?
- Recorded meaning: perhaps ‘person from Backwell’, Somerset, or perhaps a different form of Bakewell
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bagwell” — the 14th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.