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The WOODSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,496 2014 0.006 61
United States (1880 census) 5,142 1186 0.01 103
Change since 1880 +11354 -828 -0.004 -42
Other Countries
Australia 9 98798 0 1
United Kingdom 13 29891 0 0
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.

Classification and Origin of WOODSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 384 2.33
White (Hispanic) 223 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 56 0.34
Asian/Pacific 51 0.31
Black/African American 8,921 54.08
White (Caucasian) 6,862 41.6

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

Meaning of WOODSON in historical publications

WOODSON. 1. Tiie son of Wudda, an A-Sax. personal name, occurring as earl)" as the VII. century. 2. See Widowson.

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 WOODSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WOODSON.

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 WOODSON

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