The EDSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,911	7851	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	2,144	2812	0.004	43
Change since 1880	+1767	-5039	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	225	6762	0.001	14
United Kingdom	439	9746	0.001	10

Top States for EDSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	455	6089	0.001	13
New York	251	7633	0.001	13
Michigan	223	5357	0.002	22
Massachusetts	220	3879	0.003	35
Florida	215	8651	0.001	13
Top States for EDSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	140	701	0.023	230
New Hampshire	88	2158	0.007	71
Idaho	56	3254	0.004	43
Maine	54	3501	0.004	42
Nebraska	69	3514	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of EDSON

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 EDSON 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 EDSON 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 EDSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	63	1.61
Mixed Race	50	1.28
Black/African American	45	1.15
Asian/Pacific	28	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	26	0.66
White (Caucasian)	3,699	94.58

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

Similar names to EDSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDSON.

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.