Kessel

At the 2020 census, 3,580 Americans bore the surname Kessel — 8,787th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 83,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,580
Rank: 8,787th
How common: 1 in 83,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kessel

Joseph Kessel (1898–1979)French journalist and novelist
Barney Kessel (1923–2004)American jazz guitarist
Phil Kessel (born 1987)American ice hockey player
Loris Kessel (1950–2010)racecar driver
Gino van Kessel (born 1993)Curaçaoan association football player
Henk van Kessel (born 1946)Dutch motorcycle racer
John Kessel (born 1950)American writer
Martin Kessel (1901–1990)German writer

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

Surnames like Kessel

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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.