Cantrell

Cantrell is the 1,042nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,141 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,019.

By the numbers

People: 33,141
Rank: 1,042nd
How common: 1 in 9,019
Per 100,000: 11.1

Where the name comes from

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll (“hill”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cantrell

Jerry Cantrell (born 1966)American guitarist and singer
Blu Cantrell (born 1976)American singer and songwriter
William Cantrell (1908–1996)racecar driver

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

Surnames like Cantrell

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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.