Turnbull

At the 2020 census, 8,143 Americans bore the surname Turnbull — 4,219th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,143
Rank: 4,219th
How common: 1 in 36,700
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From originally a nickname for someone who was strong enough to turn a bull.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954)Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018
Ross Turnbull (born 1985)English footballer
Wendy Turnbull (born 1952)Australian tennis player
David Turnbull (born 1999)Scottish association football player
Hamish Turnbull (born 1999)British cyclist
Sandy Turnbull (1884–1917)Scottish footballer
Oswald Turnbull (1890–1970)British tennis player
Margaret Turnbull (born 2000)American astronomer

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

Surnames like Turnbull

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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.