Russel

At the 2020 census, 3,400 Americans bore the surname Russel — 9,211th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 87,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,400
Rank: 9,211th
How common: 1 in 87,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.1%
Black, not Hispanic 19.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%

Surnames like Russel

Also a first name

Russel has been given to 16,622 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. 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.