Anson

3,682 people in the United States were counted with the surname Anson in the 2020 census, making it the 8,577th most common in the country. That is about one person in 81,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,682
Rank: 8,577th
How common: 1 in 81,200
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From (the former word is a diminutive).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.7%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Anson

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762)British admiral
Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (1939–2005)English photographer
Cap Anson (1852–1922)American baseball player
Jay Anson (1921–1980)American author

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

Surnames like Anson

Also a first name

Anson has been given to 7,937 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. 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.