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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

'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?

Meaning of WATERSON in historical publications

WATERSON. See Walter.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for WATERSON

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