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The MATSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,100 2736 0.004 45
United States (1880 census) 2,625 2327 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +9475 -409 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 339 4655 0.002 21
United Kingdom 807 6227 0.002 18
Top States for MATSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,200 2612 0.004 35
Washington 1,083 610 0.018 184
Minnesota 788 568 0.016 160
Pennsylvania 616 2447 0.005 50
Florida 587 3479 0.004 37
Top States for MATSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 1,083 610 0.018 184
Minnesota 788 568 0.016 160
South Dakota 115 689 0.015 152
Alaska 87 884 0.014 139
New Hampshire 136 1446 0.011 110

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

Classification and Origin of MATSON

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 MATSON 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 MATSON 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 MATSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 243 2.01
Mixed Race 166 1.37
White (Hispanic) 166 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 121 1
Asian/Pacific 58 0.48
White (Caucasian) 11,346 93.77

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

Meaning of MATSON in historical publications

MATSON. 1. See Matthew. 2. A parish in co. Gloucester.

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 MATSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATSON.

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 MATSON

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