Coulson

Coulson is the 7,027th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,607 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 64,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,607
Rank: 7,027th
How common: 1 in 64,900
Per 100,000: 1.5

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

White, not Hispanic 87.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Coulson

Christian Coulson (born 1978)British actor
Catherine Coulson (1943–2015)American actress
Charles Coulson (1910–1974)British applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author

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

Surnames like Coulson

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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.