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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

'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.

Meaning of BRYSON in historical publications

BRYCESON. BRYSON. The son of Brice, which see.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for BRYSON

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