Russell Family History
- Russell Name Meaning
- English, Scottish, and Irish: from Rousel, a common Anglo-Norman French nickname for someone with red hair, a diminutive of Rouse with the hypocoristic suffix -el. Americanized spelling of German Rüssel, from a pet form of any of the various personal names formed with the Old High German element hrod ‘renown’. EG
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 11,010,333 Historical Documents with Russell on Ancestry
- 2,879,387 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,908,881 Census and Voter Lists
- 343,125 Military Records
- 223,531 Immigration Records
- 5,655,409 Member Trees
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Number of Russell families
 1,245 - 2,488  416 - 1,244 |
 1 - 415  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Russell families
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2,846 - 5,690 949 - 2,845 |
1 - 948 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Russell families
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2,388 - 4,773 797 - 2,387 |
1 - 796 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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- Ireland (1,335)
- England (1,223)
- Scotland (712)
- Great Britain (310)
- Germany (51)
- Ireland;Great Britain (24)
from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 6,172
- Confederate
- 1,995
- Union
- 4,177
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