The RUSSEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,582	6781	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	10,842	547	0.022	217
Change since 1880	-6260	-6234	-0.02	-200
Other Countries
Australia	21	50181	0	1
United Kingdom	365	11136	0.001	8

Top States for RUSSEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	494	10111	0.001	15
New York	290	12570	0.002	15
Texas	281	11497	0.001	13
Michigan	275	8733	0.003	28
Florida	226	14798	0.001	14
Top States for RUSSEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	49	5450	0.006	63
Washington	213	6614	0.004	36
Michigan	275	8733	0.003	28
Indiana	168	8298	0.003	28
Oregon	89	9319	0.003	26

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RUSSEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RUSSEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RUSSEL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RUSSEL by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RUSSEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RUSSEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RUSSEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RUSSEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	127	2.77
Mixed Race	96	2.1
Native American/Alaskan	73	1.59
Asian/Pacific	32	0.7
White (Caucasian)	3,135	68.42
Black/African American	1,119	24.42

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RUSSEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to RUSSEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUSSEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.