Colson

At the 2020 census, 9,365 Americans bore the surname Colson — 3,689th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,900.

By the numbers

People: 9,365
Rank: 3,689th
How common: 1 in 31,900
Per 100,000: 3.1

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 Colson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 17.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Colson

Charles Colson (1931–2012)American lawyer, politician, public servant and Christian advocate
Christian Colson (born 1968)British film producer
John Colson (1680–1760)mathematician

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

Surnames like Colson

Also a first name

Colson has been given to 9,729 American babies as a first name since 1924, peaking in 2025. 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.