Dickinson

25,393 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dickinson in the 2020 census, making it the 1,359th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,393
Rank: 1,359th
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

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

White, not Hispanic 86.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)American poet
Bruce Dickinson (born 1958)English heavy metal singer
Angie Dickinson (born 1931)American actress
Harris Dickinson (born 1996)British actor
John Dickinson (1732–1808)American politician
Janice Dickinson (born 1955)American model and actress
Jimmy Dickinson (1925–1982)English footballer
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932)American abolitionist and suffragist

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

Surnames like Dickinson

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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.