Dickerson

Dickerson is the 670th most common surname in the United States, shared by 49,519 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,036.

By the numbers

People: 49,519
Rank: 670th
How common: 1 in 6,036
Per 100,000: 16.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a diminutive.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.5%
Black, not Hispanic 30.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dickerson

Chris Dickerson (1939–2021)American bodybuilder
Ernest Dickerson (born 1951)American film director
Mahlon Dickerson (1770–1853)American politician
Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1866–1923)American herpetologist, museum curator and magazine editor
Michael Dickerson (born 1975)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Dickerson

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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.