Connell

At the 2020 census, 21,526 Americans bore the surname Connell — 1,622nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,900.

By the numbers

People: 21,526
Rank: 1,622nd
How common: 1 in 13,900
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish and Scottish

From Irish Ó Conaill, from Proto-Celtic *Kunowalos.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Connell

Desmond Connell (1926–2017)Catholic cardinal
Raewyn Connell (born 1944)Australian sociologist
Grant Connell (born 1965)Canadian tennis player
Ruth Connell (born 1979)British actress
Elizabeth Connell (1946–2012)South African-born operatic soprano
Richard Connell (1893–1949)American author and journalist
Shamilia Connell (born 1992)cricketer
Jane Connell (1925–2013)actress

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

Surnames like Connell

Also a first name

Connell has been given to 1,771 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2022. 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.