Ferrell

32,159 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ferrell in the 2020 census, making it the 1,071st most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,294.

By the numbers

People: 32,159
Rank: 1,071st
How common: 1 in 9,294
Per 100,000: 10.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.8%
Black, not Hispanic 19.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ferrell

Will Ferrell (born 1967)American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
Conchata Ferrell (1943–2020)American actress
Barbara Ferrell (born 1947)American athletics competitor
Yogi Ferrell (born 1993)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Ferrell

Also a first name

Ferrell has been given to 2,073 American babies as a first name since 1897, peaking in 1935. 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.