Neel

Neel is the 5,017th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,778 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,778
Rank: 5,017th
How common: 1 in 44,100
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Neel

Louis Néel (1904–2000)French physicist
Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969)French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
Alice Neel (1900–1984)American visual artist
Ingrid Neel (born 1998)American-Estonian tennis player

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

Surnames like Neel

Also a first name

Neel has been given to 3,392 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2009. 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.