Russell

What Russell means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Russell yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 7,487 babies; 944 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Russell?

US: Rising: up from #403 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #903 in 2015, #953 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1914, when 2,568 boys got the name (#49 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,809 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,498 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys), ID (2.55 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.86 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Russell is #345 in the US and #953 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Russell were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Russel27 US · 3 E&W
• Rossel5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Roussel
• Rowsell
• Russel

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Russell

Boys

• Jay#392“victory”^*
• Leroy#883“the king”^*
• Wayne#652“wagon”^*
• Stanley#863“stone + meadow”^*
• Casey#320“descendant of (a person named) Watchful”^*
• Bruce#536Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1956, with 14,660 babies; 558 in 2025

For a sister

• Holly#416“wood, clearing, meadow”^*
• Lacey#738Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 2,399 babies; 370 in 2025
• Tiffany#878Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1988, with 18,364 babies; 304 in 2025
• Kelsey#814Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #343 in 2015, #814 in 2025
• Darcy#857“to burn, consume”^*
• Kelly#851Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 18,234 babies; 319 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Russell’s. Rank is US 2025.