girls:
12 births since 1920
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
16.6k births since 1880
#897 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.6k births since 1880
#2010 (74th percentile)
The name Russel is the #2,010 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,572 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #897 (80.4% percentile) for all time with 16,560 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1920.
Russel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1920 for girls). Birth data for Russel is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Russel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Russel reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 50.4% percentile (ranked #266) with 353 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 366 births per million (ranked 40.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Russel ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 2.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Russel reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #608) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Russel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Russel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 2 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Russell" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Russell..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Russel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Russel is pronounced as RUH-suhl, which has 2 syllables.
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