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The EDWARDSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 918 25329 0 3
United States (1880 census) 80 36429 0 2
Change since 1880 +838 +11100 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 33 35210 0 2
United Kingdom 661 7241 0.001 14
Top States for EDWARDSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 128 6899 0.002 24
Minnesota 107 7337 0.002 22
California 79 29408 0.000 2
North Dakota 53 1960 0.008 83
Illinois 51 26690 0.000 4
Top States for EDWARDSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 53 1960 0.008 83
Alaska 22 4431 0.004 35
Wisconsin 128 6899 0.002 24
Minnesota 107 7337 0.002 22
Kansas 33 10127 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of EDWARDSON

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 EDWARDSON 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 EDWARDSON 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 EDWARDSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 834 90.85
Black/African American 25 2.72
White (Hispanic) 24 2.61
Mixed Race 17 1.85
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of EDWARDSON in historical publications

EDWARDSON. See Edward.

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 EDWARDSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDWARDSON.

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 EDWARDSON

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