Burnell

At the 2020 census, 3,717 Americans bore the surname Burnell — 8,510th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 80,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,717
Rank: 8,510th
How common: 1 in 80,400
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943)British astrophysicist
Charles Burnell (1876–1969)British rower
Dickie Burnell (1917–1995)British rower

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

Surnames like Burnell

Also a first name

Burnell has been given to 3,383 American babies as a first name since 1906, 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.