Sell

At the 2020 census, 10,014 Americans bore the surname Sell — 3,476th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,800.

By the numbers

People: 10,014
Rank: 3,476th
How common: 1 in 29,800
Per 100,000: 3.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Sell

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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.