Tyrrell

5,549 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tyrrell in the 2020 census, making it the 5,973rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 53,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,549
Rank: 5,973rd
How common: 1 in 53,900
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Perhaps from a Norman nickname for a stubborn person, from Old French tirel (“an animal which pulls on the reins”), a derivative of tirer (“to pull”). Woulfe suggests that it may be from the personal name Thurold or Þorvaldr, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) + valdr (“rule”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Tyrrell

Susan Tyrrell (1945–2012)American actress
Ken Tyrrell (1924–2001)racing driver and Formula one team owner
George Tyrrell (1861–1909)Irish Jesuit priest
Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957)Canadian geologist

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

Surnames like Tyrrell

Tyree

Also a first name

Tyrrell has been given to 668 American babies as a first name since 1940, peaking in 1993. 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.