The ALDERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,884	5438	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,646	3529	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+4238	-1909	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	761	2133	0.005	47
United Kingdom	5,097	1234	0.011	111

Top States for ALDERSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	664	4334	0.002	20
Texas	440	4713	0.002	21
Illinois	333	3811	0.003	27
Tennessee	297	2647	0.005	52
Virginia	281	3053	0.004	40
Top States for ALDERSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	193	1826	0.007	72
Kansas	164	1866	0.006	61
Idaho	70	2516	0.005	54
Tennessee	297	2647	0.005	52
West Virginia	81	2674	0.004	45

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALDERSON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALDERSON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALDERSON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALDERSON by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ALDERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ALDERSON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ALDERSON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ALDERSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	443	7.53
White (Hispanic)	84	1.43
Mixed Race	81	1.38
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.53
Asian/Pacific	19	0.32
White (Caucasian)	5,226	88.82

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ALDERSON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ALDERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALDERSON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.