The BRYSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,680	1867	0.007	66
United States (1880 census)	3,427	1787	0.007	69
Change since 1880	+14253	-80	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	616	2623	0.004	38
United Kingdom	3,641	1718	0.008	79

Top States for BRYSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,685	711	0.021	209
California	1,300	2478	0.004	38
Georgia	1,204	926	0.015	147
South Carolina	1,143	577	0.028	285
Texas	1,036	2336	0.005	50
Top States for BRYSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,143	577	0.028	285
North Carolina	1,685	711	0.021	209
Tennessee	1,033	863	0.018	182
Delaware	121	1164	0.015	154
Georgia	1,204	926	0.015	147

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

Classification and Origin of BRYSON

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 BRYSON 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 BRYSON 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 BRYSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	292	1.65
Mixed Race	260	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	106	0.6
Asian/Pacific	72	0.41
White (Caucasian)	14,050	79.47
Black/African American	2,900	16.4

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

Similar names to BRYSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRYSON.

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.