The ADAMSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,080	2065	0.006	60
United States (1880 census)	3,065	1980	0.006	61
Change since 1880	+13015	-85	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	1,929	846	0.012	118
United Kingdom	9,585	628	0.021	209

Top States for ADAMSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,488	2171	0.004	44
Texas	862	2714	0.004	41
Utah	783	334	0.035	351
Pennsylvania	753	2037	0.006	61
Florida	736	2855	0.005	46
Top States for ADAMSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	783	334	0.035	351
Idaho	359	447	0.028	277
Wyoming	78	704	0.016	158
Nebraska	223	828	0.013	130
South Dakota	98	896	0.013	130

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

Classification and Origin of ADAMSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	246	1.53
Mixed Race	228	1.42
Native American/Alaskan	88	0.55
Asian/Pacific	61	0.38
White (Caucasian)	14,118	87.8
Black/African American	1,339	8.33

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

Similar names to ADAMSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ADAMSON.

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.