Purcell

21,538 people in the United States were counted with the surname Purcell in the 2020 census, making it the 1,620th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,900.

By the numbers

People: 21,538
Rank: 1,620th
How common: 1 in 13,900
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

From Latin porcellus.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Purcell

Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997)American physicist
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)English composer
Dominic Purcell (born 1970)actor
Steve Purcell (born 1961)American cartoonist, animator, film director and game designer
Max Purcell (born 1998)Australian tennis player
Lee Purcell (born 1947)actress
Daniel Purcell (1664–1717)English composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell
Leah Purcell (born 1970)Australian actress and film director

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

Surnames like Purcell

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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.