Anderson
756,560 people in the United States were counted with the surname Anderson in the 2020 census, making it the 15th most common in the country. That is about one person in 395.
By the numbers
- People
- 756,560
- Rank
- 15th
- How common
- 1 in 395
- Per 100,000
- 253.1
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
From after Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization of Danish and Norwegian Andersen or Swedish Andersson.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Anderson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Anderson
- Pamela Anderson (born 1967)Canadian actress and model
- Gillian Anderson (born 1968)American actress
- Carl David Anderson (1905–1991)American physicist
- Philip W. Anderson (1923–2020)American physicist
- Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)American writer
- Wes Anderson (born 1969)American filmmaker
- Paul Thomas Anderson (born 1970)American filmmaker
- Marian Anderson (1897–1993)African-American contralto
People named Anderson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Anderson
Also a first name
Anderson has been given to 35,646 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.