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The DAVIDSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 102,044 269 0.038 378
United States (1880 census) 24,777 206 0.05 496
Change since 1880 +77267 -63 -0.012 -118
Other Countries
Australia 8,378 140 0.051 513
United Kingdom 32,684 144 0.071 712
Top States for DAVIDSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 8,310 370 0.025 245
Texas 7,609 308 0.036 365
Florida 5,827 289 0.036 365
Ohio 5,385 197 0.047 474
Tennessee 4,290 169 0.075 754
Top States for DAVIDSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 4,290 169 0.075 754
Arkansas 1,746 172 0.065 653
Kentucky 2,586 189 0.064 640
Oregon 2,044 142 0.060 597
Alabama 2,630 254 0.059 591

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

Classification and Origin of DAVIDSON

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 DAVIDSON 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 DAVIDSON 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 DAVIDSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 612 0.6
Asian/Pacific 469 0.46
White (Caucasian) 88,013 86.25
Black/African American 9,776 9.58
Mixed Race 1,541 1.51
White (Hispanic) 1,633 1.6

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

Meaning of DAVIDSON in historical publications

DAVIDS. DAVIDSON. See David.

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 DAVIDSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAVIDSON.

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 DAVIDSON

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