Neal

87,995 people in the United States were counted with the surname Neal in the 2020 census, making it the 348th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,397.

By the numbers

People: 87,995
Rank: 348th
How common: 1 in 3,397
Per 100,000: 29.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish, from a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.2%
Black, not Hispanic 31.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Neal

Patricia Neal (1926–2010)American stage and film actress
Richard Neal (born 1949)American politician
Phil Neal (born 1951)English footballer
Diane Neal (born 1976)American actress
Elise Neal (born 1966)American actress
Gary Neal (born 1984)American basketball player and coach
Dylan Neal (born 1969)Canadian/American actor
Lia Neal (born 1995)American swimmer, Olympic athlete, world champion

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

Surnames like Neal

Also a first name

Neal has been given to 55,305 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1959. 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.