Isbell

At the 2020 census, 9,234 Americans bore the surname Isbell — 3,743rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,234
Rank: 3,743rd
How common: 1 in 32,400
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a matronymic

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Isabel.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

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.