# Mansell (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mansell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,506 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,283 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 88,062 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.2% (3,498 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Mansel |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from Old French Mansel (“someone from Le Mans”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mansell in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mansell in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Mansell

- Clint Mansell, British composer and singer
- Henry J. Mansell, American Roman-Catholic archbishop

## Similar surnames

Mancilla, Manzella, Munsell, Mancillas, Mangels, Mangel, Mangold, Maniscalco, Menzel, Mengel, Manigault, Mangual.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.