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The GRIERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 686 31817 0 2
United States (1880 census) 224 17702 0 4
Change since 1880 +462 -14115 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 405 3894 0.002 25
United Kingdom 1,881 3118 0.004 41
Top States for GRIERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 59 15410 0.001 5
Maine 56 2669 0.004 44
Maryland 56 7270 0.001 11
New York 48 26962 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 38 26040 0.000 3
Top States for GRIERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 56 2669 0.004 44
Maryland 56 7270 0.001 11
Utah 16 9286 0.001 7
Mississippi 20 7594 0.001 7
Connecticut 20 16815 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GRIERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRIERSON 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 GRIERSON 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 GRIERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 602 87.76
Black/African American 48 7
Mixed Race 18 2.62
White (Hispanic) 17 2.48
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GRIERSON in historical publications

The son of Greer or Gregor; the same as McGregor.

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


GRIERSON. The son of Gregor; descended from the clan Gregor. B.L.G. under Macadam.

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 GRIERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIERSON.

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 GRIERSON

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