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The GREGSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,056 13548 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 360 12449 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1696 -1099 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 664 2429 0.004 41
United Kingdom 3,886 1598 0.008 85
Top States for GREGSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 204 12415 0.001 6
Texas 127 12927 0.001 6
North Carolina 123 6225 0.002 15
Illinois 107 12467 0.001 9
New York 105 17872 0.001 6
Top States for GREGSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 79 2077 0.008 75
Utah 61 4301 0.003 27
Wyoming 12 6126 0.002 24
Arkansas 58 5038 0.002 22
Oregon 67 6547 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of GREGSON

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 GREGSON 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 GREGSON 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 GREGSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 36 1.75
Native American/Alaskan 32 1.56
White (Hispanic) 30 1.46
Black/African American 15 0.73
Asian/Pacific 10 0.49
White (Caucasian) 1,933 94.02

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

Meaning of GREGSON in historical publications

GREGSON. See Gregory.

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 GREGSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREGSON.

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 GREGSON

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