The POLSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,022	7623	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	951	5693	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+3071	-1930	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	302	5173	0.002	18
United Kingdom	836	6060	0.002	18

Top States for POLSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	343	1930	0.009	85
Texas	278	7057	0.001	13
California	261	10287	0.001	8
Florida	224	8706	0.001	14
North Carolina	182	4852	0.002	23
Top States for POLSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	343	1930	0.009	85
Iowa	145	2908	0.005	50
Oklahoma	158	3060	0.005	46
Kansas	117	2921	0.004	44
Nebraska	72	3549	0.004	42

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

Classification and Origin of POLSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	144	3.58
Mixed Race	73	1.82
White (Hispanic)	69	1.72
Asian/Pacific	52	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	26	0.65
White (Caucasian)	3,658	90.95

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

Similar names to POLSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLSON.

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.