Adamson

Adamson is the 2,200th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,141 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,500.

By the numbers

People: 16,141
Rank: 2,200th
How common: 1 in 18,500
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Adamson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Adamson

Joy Adamson (1910–1980)Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator
Andrew Adamson (born 1966)New Zealand director, screenwriter and producer
James C. Adamson (born 1946)American astronaut
Hendrik Adamson (1891–1946)Estonian poet, writer, Esperantist and pedagogue
Donald Adamson (1939–2024)British writer and translator
Jimmy Adamson (1929–2011)English footballer
Amandus Adamson (1855–1929)Estonian sculptor
Stuart Adamson (1958–2001)Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter

People named Adamson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Adamson

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.