Buell

At the 2020 census, 6,074 Americans bore the surname Buell — 5,534th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,074
Rank: 5,534th
How common: 1 in 49,200
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

As a Welsh surname, variant of Bowell, itself a variant of Powell (also see Howell).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Buell

Don Carlos Buell (1818–1898)American Union Army General
Bebe Buell (born 1953)American model and singer

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

Surnames like Buell

Also a first name

Buell has been given to 840 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1920. 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.