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The ANSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,731 8176 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,149 4853 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +2582 -3323 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 488 3294 0.003 30
United Kingdom 1,428 3925 0.003 31
Top States for ANSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 432 4514 0.002 23
California 333 8155 0.001 10
Florida 247 7808 0.002 15
Nebraska 222 811 0.013 130
Oklahoma 211 2271 0.006 61
Top States for ANSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 222 811 0.013 130
Oklahoma 211 2271 0.006 61
Iowa 156 2528 0.005 53
Wyoming 22 2974 0.004 45
Idaho 43 4278 0.003 33

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of ANSON

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 ANSON 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 ANSON 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 ANSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 167 4.48
Asian/Pacific 91 2.44
Mixed Race 76 2.04
White (Hispanic) 51 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.72
White (Caucasian) 3,319 88.96

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

Meaning of ANSON in historical publications

The son of Ann, or the same as Hanson, the son of Hans or John--the "H" being dropped in pronunciation.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


ANSON. Such names as An-son, Nelson, Bet-son, &c., have been regarded as a sort of mctron}Tiiics, and therefore considered indicative of illegitimac}' ; but I think there is little doubt of the former part of these names being in man) cases corruj)tions of masculine appellations. Anson is probably a contraction of Alanson.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ANSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ANSON.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ANSON

The following words are slight variants of ANSON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.