Parnell

At the 2020 census, 13,860 Americans bore the surname Parnell — 2,540th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,860
Rank: 2,540th
How common: 1 in 21,600
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin the given name Petronella

Matronymic from a medieval spoken form of Petronella.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Parnell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.1%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891)Irish politician
Sean Parnell (born 1962)American politician
Chris Parnell (born 1967)American actor
Reg Parnell (1911–1964)racecar driver
Tim Parnell (1932–2017)British racecar driver
Charles Parnell (born 1964)American actor
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718)Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Wayne Parnell (born 1989)South African cricket player

People named Parnell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Parnell

Also a first name

Parnell has been given to 1,479 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1963. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.