Davison

Davison is the 1,639th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,313 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,313
Rank: 1,639th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

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

White, not Hispanic 76.9%
Black, not Hispanic 13.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Davison

Bruce Davison (born 1946)American actor
Emily Davison (1867–1913)British activist who fought for women's suffrage
Rosanna Davison (born 1984)Irish model, activist, and Miss World 2003
Peter Davison (born 1951)English actor
Jon Davison (born 1971)American musician
Bryce Davison (born 1986)American-Canadian pair skater
Dehenna Davison (born 1993)British politician
Luke Davison (born 1990)Australian cyclist

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

Surnames like Davison

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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.