Frizzell

5,349 people in the United States were counted with the surname Frizzell in the 2020 census, making it the 6,141st most common in the country. That is about one person in 55,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,349
Rank: 6,141st
How common: 1 in 55,900
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

As an English and Irish surname, from Old French frisel (“ribbon, tassel, fringe”), a nickname for someone with an ornate style of dress; see frise (“border, frieze”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Frizzell

Mary Frizzell (1913–1972)athletics competitor
Lefty Frizzell (1928–1975)American country singer-songwriter
John Frizzell (born 1966)American composer

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

Surnames like Frizzell

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.