Birrell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A different form of Burrell
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Birrell is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A different form of Burrell.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Augustine Birrellb. 1850GBBritish politician (1850-1933)
- Frederick Birrellb. 1869AUAustralian politician
- Francis Birrellb. 1889GBBritish writer (1889–1935)
- Fred Birrellb. 1913AUAustralian politician
- Tom Birrellb. 1924GBacademic (1924–2011)
- Harry Birrellb. 1927ZASouth African cricketer (1927-2003)
- James Birrellb. 1928AURetired, award-winning Australian architect
- Mark Birrellb. 1958AUAustralian politician
- Adrian Birrellb. 1960ZASouth African cricketer
- Kimberly Birrellb. 1998AUAustralian female tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 633 | #33,933 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 623 | #38,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 496 | #43,511 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #126,876 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Birrell mean, and where does it come from?
- A different form of Burrell. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Birrell have the most bearers?
- Birrell is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birrellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Birrell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.