Bell

Bell is the 76th most common surname in the United States, shared by 267,025 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,119.

By the numbers

People: 267,025
Rank: 76th
How common: 1 in 1,119
Per 100,000: 89.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.9%
Black, not Hispanic 31.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bell

Kristen Bell (born 1980)American actress
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943)British astrophysicist
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy
Tobin Bell (born 1942)American actor
Jamie Bell (born 1986)English actor
John Stewart Bell (1928–1990)Northern Irish physicist
Lake Bell (born 1979)American actress, director and screenwriter
Daniel Bell (1919–2011)American sociologist

People named Bell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bell

Also a first name

Bell has been given to 2,626 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1900. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.