Clarkson

Clarkson is the 4,033rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,544 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 35,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,544
Rank: 4,033rd
How common: 1 in 35,000
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name, a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 11.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson (born 1982)American singer-songwriter
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960)British broadcaster, journalist and writer
Patricia Clarkson (born 1959)American actress
Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939)26th governor general of Canada
Lana Clarkson (1962–2003)actress and fashion model from the United States
Jordan Clarkson (born 1992)American-Filipino basketball player
Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846)English abolitionist
Leighton Clarkson (born 2001)English association football player

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

Surnames like Clarkson

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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.