Is ''Powell'' a Brazillian surname?

Question: Is ''Powell'' a Brazillian surname!?
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You would have to trace your actual family members for an accurate result, but the following Powells are from Brazil (a country with a lot of distant European roots, which makes it common to have European last names):

Name: Archibald H Powell
Birth: abt 1882 - Brazil
Residence: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Name: China Powell
Father: Clark Powell
Birth: 13 Jul 1915 - Brazil
Death: 21 Aug 1915 - Jackson

Name: Jandyra Powell
Birth: abt 1915 - Sac Paulo Sac Paulo, Brazil
Birth: abt 1915
Arrival: 1 Jun 1948 - Nogales, Arizona, USA

So, the conclusion!? It's possible, but most last names originate in one country and are given to people all over the world through colonization, adoption and immigration!. A more accurate result can be found by searching through your own family!.
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Powell: Last name origins & meanings:

English (of Welsh origin): Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell)!.
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of St!. Paul’ (see Guilfoyle)!.
This surname is extremely common in Wales and has also spread throughout England and Ireland!. The first recorded occurrence of the surname in its modern form is Roger ap Howell, alias Powell, named in a lawsuit in 1563!. He was the grandson of Howell ap John (d!. 1535)!. Snelling Powell, born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1758, came to America in 1793 and was a successful actor and theater manager in Boston!. Later members of the family include the novelist Anthony Powell (b!. 1905)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Surname: Powell
This interesting name has two possible origins, the first and most generally applicable to modern-day bearers of the name being from the early medieval Welsh patronymic form of the personal name "Hywel"!. In Welsh this was rendered as "ap-Howell" or "Hywel", meaning "son of Hywel", a male personal name popular since the Middle Ages in honour of the great 10th Century law-giving Welsh King!. In time the two elements contracted to produce the name "Powell", which is first recorded in its modern form as Roger ap Howell, alias Powell, named in a lawsuit in 1563!. The second possible origin of the surname is English and derives from a patronymic form of the given name Paul, meaning "small", from the Latin "paulus", and found in Langlands's "Piers Plowman" in 1367 as "Powel"!. One James Powell embarked in the "Thomas and John" for Virginia in June 1635, at 12 yrs!. of age being one of the youngest emigrants recorded!. There are twenty-seven "Powell" entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography"!. These include Professor Baden-Powell (1796 - 1860), whose son was Sir George Baden-Powell, M!.P!. (1847 - 1898) who in turn was the father of Col!. Robert (later Lord) Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout and Guide Movement!. Col!. Baden-Powell defended Mafeking against the Boers in 1900 for 217 days, using "Boy" Scouts as his communication runners!. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Philip ap Howel which was dated 1285, in the "Radnorshire Charter Rolls", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307!. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation!. In England this was known as Poll Tax!. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling!.

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English (of Welsh origin): Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell)!.
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of St!. Paul’ (see Guilfoyle)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com