Connell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic Mac Conail or Ó Conail, probably meaning literally ‘hound-valour’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
/kɒnəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Connell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.1K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Connell itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 448 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
23,398 named Connelly, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Irish Gaelic Mac Conail or Ó Conail, probably meaning literally ‘hound-valour’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Connell, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Connell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #553 | 23,398as Connelly | 1 in 14K | 23K | Connell | 448 |
| GB United Kingdom | #386 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 14 | Connell | 239 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Connell | 9 |
| AU Australia | #325 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1 | Connell | 185 |
| CA Canada | #543 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 2 | Connell | 162 |
| IE Ireland | #135 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Connell | 115 |
| NZ New Zealand | #403 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Connell | 83 |
| ES Spain | — | 83 | 1 in 603K | 83 | — | 41 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 43 | 1 in 2.4K | 43 | — | 2 |
23,398 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling connelly. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Connell is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
cendant of Conair, a personal name of uncertain origin, possibly composed of the elements con (from cii hound) + gal valour. The name was popularized by the fame of a 7th-cent. Irish saint, abbot of Inis Caoil. Vars.: Condamin, Contamin(e), Condemine, Condomine. Vars.: O’Connell, Gunning.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Irish and Scottish, variant of Connel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Richard Connellb. 1893USAmerican author and journalist (1893-1949)
- Ninette de Valoisb. 1898IEnot in their usual nameBritish dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet
- Del Connellb. 1918USAmerican comics artist and screenwriter
- John Connellb. 1923USAmerican actor (1923–2015)
- Evan S. Connellb. 1924USAmerican novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist (1924-2013)
- John Connellb. 1940USAmerican artist (1940-2009)
- Raewyn Connellb. 1944AUAustralian sociologist (1944-)
- Grant Connellb. 1965CACanadian tennis player
- Ruth Connellb. 1979GBBritish actress
- Gaelan Connellb. 1989USAmerican actor
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 22K | #1,470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 22K | #1,622 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 83 | #31,606 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 83 | #31,311 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 43 | #219 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Connell mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Mac Conail or Ó Conail, probably meaning literally ‘hound-valour’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Connell?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒnəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Connell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Connelly, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Connell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Connell is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Connell?
- In Spain, the national register counted 83 people named Connell, about 1 in 603 thousand residents.
- How common is Connell compared with other names?
- In the United States, Connell is the 553rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Connell?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/connellThe 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
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Connell” — the 553rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.