Pell

4,208 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pell in the 2020 census, making it the 7,600th most common in the country. That is about one person in 71,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,208
Rank: 7,600th
How common: 1 in 71,000
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Pell

George Pell (1941–2023)Australian Catholic cardinal
John Pell (1611–1685)British mathematician (*1611 – †1685)
Axel Rudi Pell (born 1960)German guitarist
Claiborne Pell (1918–2009)American politician
Theodore Pell (1879–1967)American tennis player
Paula Pell (born 1963)American actor, writer and producer

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

Surnames like Pell

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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.