as a Last Name
- 102,659
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Caldwell
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.
| 291st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 102,659
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Caldwell per capita
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