This page shows the Russell (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Russell was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Russell's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Russell for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Russell appears in 47 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 1,605 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1981, when the table records 117 babies given the name, at rank 63 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Russell for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20255560
20243727
20214605
20203711
201811325
20164592
20156470
20136466
20125500
20118386
20107399
20099349
20086419
200711290
20063584
20059290
20047313
20034417
200216193
200117184
200014190
199914197
199817184
199722171
199625154
199524155
199426145
199328140
199248111
199126142
199032119
198940108
198839104
198740103
198650100
19856983
19848078
19839670
19829770
198111763
198010565
19799169
19787677
19778668
19767376
19756281
19746484

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