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Baby name
Russell
Boy
Origin of the name
Russell was first a Norman nickname and surname, from rous, “red,” with a diminutive ending: “little red one.”
Classic name
359,780births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 56rank at its peak, in 1960
Where babies named Russell are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Russell is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Russell is most common in Montana (1.9 times), Rhode Island (1.8) and Iowa (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Russel 16,610
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