as a Last Name
- 10,134
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Bagwell
Meaning & Origins
English: of uncertain origin. It may be a variant of Backwell, a habitational name from Backwell in Somerset, named with Old English bæc ‘ridge’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or possibly from Bakewell in Derbyshire (see Bakewell). Alternatively, it may be from a minor place named with an unattested Old English word, bagga ‘ badger’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
| 3,065th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,134
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Bagwell per capita
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