The WATERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,134	21479	0	4
United States (1880 census)	518	9368	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+616	-12111	+N/A	-6
Other Countries
Australia	489	3289	0.003	30
United Kingdom	1,442	3898	0.003	31

Top States for WATERSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	137	19150	0.000	4
Michigan	119	11750	0.001	12
Florida	98	19132	0.001	6
New York	90	22758	0.000	5
Indiana	78	10112	0.001	13
Top States for WATERSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	21	7459	0.003	28
Vermont	8	12334	0.001	13
Indiana	78	10112	0.001	13
Michigan	119	11750	0.001	12
Wyoming	5	16355	0.001	10

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

Classification and Origin of WATERSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the WATERSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of WATERSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	57	5.03
Mixed Race	20	1.76
Asian/Pacific	10	0.88
White (Hispanic)	10	0.88
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.71
White (Caucasian)	1,029	90.74

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

WATERSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to WATERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WATERSON.

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.