Cullen

At the 2020 census, 19,574 Americans bore the surname Cullen — 1,790th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,574
Rank: 1,790th
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.6

Where the name comes from

From Scottish Gaelic cuilinn.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cullen

Peter Cullen (born 1941)Canadian voice actor
Robert Cullen (born 1985)Japanese association football player
Brett Cullen (born 1956)American actor
William Cullen (1710–1790)Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist;
Tom Cullen (born 1985)British actor
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)American author
Josh Cullen (born 1996)Irish footballer
Crista Cullen (born 1985)English field hockey player fullback

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

Surnames like Cullen

Also a first name

Cullen has been given to 16,703 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2010. 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.