Hull
Hull is the 805th most common surname in the United States, shared by 41,685 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,170.
By the numbers
- People
- 41,685
- Rank
- 805th
- How common
- 1 in 7,170
- Per 100,000
- 14.0
Where the name comes from
The town in England is, Hul, Hulle, traditionally derived from cel-bry-pro *hʉl, from Proto-Celtic *soulos, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to press”); Breeze instead suggests derivation from hula, plural of hulu (“hut”). Chaucer's Hulle (for expected *Hul, *Hule) is presumably a hypercorrect Southern form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Hull described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Hull
- Cordell Hull (1871–1955)American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
- Josephine Hull (1877–1957)American stage and film actress
- Bobby Hull (1939–2023)Canadian ice hockey player
- Clark L. Hull (1884–1952)American psychologist
- Brett Hull (born 1964)Canadian-American ice hockey player
- Jane Dee Hull (1935–2020)American politician
- Jessica Hull (born 1996)Australian athletics competitor
- Geoffrey Hull (born 1955)Australian linguist
People named Hull with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Hull
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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.