The JAMESON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,868	2588	0.005	48
United States (1880 census)	3,967	1550	0.008	79
Change since 1880	+8901	-1038	-0.003	-31
Other Countries
Australia	610	2642	0.004	37
United Kingdom	3,755	1661	0.008	82

Top States for JAMESON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,170	2154	0.006	56
California	1,085	3029	0.003	32
Florida	617	3500	0.004	39
Ohio	498	2948	0.004	44
Missouri	453	1676	0.008	81
Top States for JAMESON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	210	1250	0.016	165
New Hampshire	201	1010	0.016	163
New Mexico	193	974	0.011	106
Nebraska	178	1154	0.010	104
Oklahoma	358	1400	0.010	104

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

Classification and Origin of JAMESON

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 JAMESON 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 JAMESON 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 JAMESON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	266	2.07
Mixed Race	171	1.33
Native American/Alaskan	140	1.09
Asian/Pacific	89	0.69
White (Caucasian)	11,104	86.29
Black/African American	1,098	8.53

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

Similar names to JAMESON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JAMESON.

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.