Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Harrell

    A surname, carried by 50,837 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H640

    Harrell: #671 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Harrell #671, 50,837 people Harrell: #671 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Harrell #671, 50,837 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harrell is more common than 99.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 50,837 people named Harrell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 6,073 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 48,471.

    #671
    rank among US surnames
    50,837
    people in 2010
    17
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #638)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #662Atkins51,6715,975
    #663Mathews51,5925,984
    #664Bonilla51,4755,998
    #665Acevedo51,3516,012
    #666Benitez51,2886,020
    #667Zavala51,1536,036
    #668Hensley51,0816,044

    Who is named Harrell

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    66% of people named Harrell identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Harrells

    7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Montrezl Harrell
      American basketball player (born 1994)
    • Tom Harrell
      American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, born 1946
    • Lynn Harrell
      American cellist (1944–2020)
    • Kuk Harrell
      American songwriter, vocal producer, arranger and engineer, born 1964
    • Maestro Harrell
      American actor, musician and rapper, born 1991
    • Mack Harrell
      American opera singer (1909-1960)
    • Boris Zhukov
      American professional wrestler, born 1959

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Harrell

    Harrell has the Soundex code H640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H640.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Harrell?
    50,837 people in the United States had the surname Harrell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,073 Americans. It ranked 671st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Harrell?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Harrell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Harrell?
    Montrezl Harrell, American basketball player (born 1994), followed by Tom Harrell.
    Where is the surname Harrell most common?
    Wikidata records people named Harrell in the United States.
    Is the surname Harrell getting more or less common?
    More common. 48,471 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 50,837 in 2010, up 4.9%.