The EDISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,860	7951	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	297	14401	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+3563	+6450	0	+8
Other Countries
Australia	13	70868	0	1
United Kingdom	156	19015	0	3

Top States for EDISON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	463	4996	0.002	22
California	335	8837	0.001	10
Michigan	273	4916	0.003	27
Florida	269	7911	0.002	17
Illinois	166	8764	0.001	13
Top States for EDISON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	145	3636	0.004	36
North Dakota	21	6082	0.003	33
Oklahoma	108	4530	0.003	31
Michigan	273	4916	0.003	27
Mississippi	67	4604	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of EDISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	180	4.66
White (Hispanic)	137	3.55
Mixed Race	70	1.81
Asian/Pacific	28	0.73
White (Caucasian)	2,059	53.34
Black/African American	1,386	35.91

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

Similar names to EDISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDISON.

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.