Meaning not yet researched.
Russel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #283 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #283 in 1920; #4,020 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Russel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,020 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #283.
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Russel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #283 in 1920 · most boys in one year: 389 (1920).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Russel, making it the 4,020th most common boys’ name of the year, up 520 places from #4,540 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 23 boys named Russel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #283, reached in 1920. That year also had the most boys given the name: 389. For comparison, it was #4,861 in 2015 and #543 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Russel in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 16,622 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,300 babies named Russel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 249 US boys were named Russel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Russell (361,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rosel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rosel (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Russel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #4,020 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,540 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,449 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,672 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,212 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,795 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,702 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,686 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,656 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,911 |
| 2015 | — | — | 20 | #4,861 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,221 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,840 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,869 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,793 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #3,001 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,534 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,633 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,674 |
| 2006 | — | — | 40 | #2,870 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #3,003 |
| 2004 | — | — | 33 | #3,061 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,719 |
| 2002 | — | — | 47 | #2,243 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,607 |
| 2000 | — | — | 36 | #2,612 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,924 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,985 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,017 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,899 |
| 1995 | — | — | 53 | #1,702 |
| 1994 | — | — | 60 | #1,554 |
| 1993 | — | — | 54 | #1,659 |
| 1992 | — | — | 56 | #1,594 |
| 1991 | — | — | 75 | #1,304 |
| 1990 | — | — | 81 | #1,224 |
| 1989 | — | — | 88 | #1,138 |
| 1988 | — | — | 64 | #1,294 |
| 1987 | — | — | 85 | #1,039 |
| 1986 | — | — | 81 | #1,037 |
| 1985 | — | — | 73 | #1,089 |
| 1984 | — | — | 97 | #890 |
| 1983 | — | — | 82 | #978 |
| 1982 | — | — | 117 | #822 |
| 1981 | — | — | 107 | #857 |
| 1980 | — | — | 120 | #803 |
| 1979 | — | — | 101 | #868 |
| 1978 | — | — | 94 | #889 |
| 1977 | — | — | 86 | #917 |
| 1976 | — | — | 98 | #844 |
| 1975 | — | — | 126 | #745 |
| 1974 | — | — | 101 | #800 |
| 1973 | — | — | 130 | #706 |
| 1972 | — | — | 113 | #749 |
| 1971 | — | — | 176 | #625 |
| 1970 | — | — | 143 | #694 |
| 1969 | — | — | 167 | #608 |
| 1968 | — | — | 162 | #596 |
| 1967 | — | — | 154 | #603 |
| 1966 | — | — | 142 | #622 |
| 1965 | — | — | 151 | #620 |
| 1964 | — | — | 148 | #641 |
| 1963 | — | — | 195 | #566 |
| 1962 | — | — | 201 | #556 |
| 1961 | — | — | 191 | #569 |
| 1960 | — | — | 218 | #537 |
| 1959 | — | — | 194 | #558 |
| 1958 | — | — | 175 | #585 |
| 1957 | — | — | 199 | #547 |
| 1956 | — | — | 206 | #522 |
| 1955 | — | — | 186 | #545 |
| 1954 | — | — | 168 | #568 |
| 1953 | — | — | 159 | #566 |
| 1952 | — | — | 175 | #531 |
| 1951 | — | — | 181 | #504 |
| 1950 | — | — | 159 | #543 |
| 1949 | — | — | 177 | #501 |
| 1948 | — | — | 201 | #473 |
| 1947 | — | — | 202 | #475 |
| 1946 | — | — | 183 | #476 |
| 1945 | — | — | 177 | #447 |
| 1944 | — | — | 166 | #472 |
| 1943 | — | — | 172 | #472 |
| 1942 | — | — | 160 | #484 |
| 1941 | — | — | 151 | #479 |
| 1940 | — | — | 152 | #469 |
| 1939 | — | — | 141 | #484 |
| 1938 | — | — | 170 | #444 |
| 1937 | — | — | 183 | #420 |
| 1936 | — | — | 174 | #424 |
| 1935 | — | — | 167 | #441 |
| 1934 | — | — | 175 | #425 |
| 1933 | — | — | 199 | #385 |
| 1932 | — | — | 215 | #383 |
| 1931 | — | — | 186 | #414 |
| 1930 | — | — | 225 | #379 |
| 1929 | — | — | 259 | #350 |
| 1928 | — | — | 281 | #336 |
| 1927 | — | — | 305 | #328 |
| 1926 | — | — | 329 | #312 |
| 1925 | — | — | 340 | #309 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,373 | 327 | #321 |
| 1923 | — | — | 349 | #302 |
| 1922 | — | — | 325 | #319 |
| 1921 | — | — | 384 | #286 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,642 | 389 | #283 |
| 1919 | — | — | 318 | #310 |
| 1918 | — | — | 305 | #326 |
| 1917 | — | — | 305 | #303 |
| 1916 | — | — | 274 | #317 |
| 1915 | — | — | 305 | #285 |
| 1914 | — | — | 216 | #308 |
| 1913 | — | — | 196 | #283 |
| 1912 | — | — | 142 | #305 |
| 1911 | — | — | 70 | #326 |
| 1910 | — | — | 50 | #363 |
| 1909 | — | — | 39 | #395 |
| 1908 | — | — | 41 | #358 |
| 1907 | — | — | 38 | #364 |
| 1906 | — | — | 38 | #340 |
| 1905 | — | — | 29 | #402 |
| 1904 | — | — | 29 | #388 |
| 1903 | — | — | 33 | #339 |
| 1902 | — | — | 31 | #359 |
| 1901 | — | — | 28 | #350 |
| 1900 | — | — | 46 | #311 |
| 1899 | — | — | 27 | #353 |
| 1898 | — | — | 29 | #363 |
| 1897 | — | — | 20 | #434 |
| 1896 | — | — | 26 | #387 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #487 |
| 1894 | — | — | 26 | #364 |
| 1893 | — | — | 19 | #430 |
| 1892 | — | — | 20 | #441 |
| 1891 | — | — | 22 | #372 |
| 1890 | — | — | 15 | #506 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #621 |
| 1888 | — | — | 12 | #603 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #737 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #686 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,075 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,100 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,070 |
| 1881 | — | — | 10 | #584 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #735 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).