Dickson

At the 2020 census, 33,594 Americans bore the surname Dickson — 1,022nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,897.

By the numbers

People: 33,594
Rank: 1,022nd
How common: 1 in 8,897
Per 100,000: 11.2

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

White, not Hispanic 73.4%
Black, not Hispanic 16.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Dickson

William Kennedy Dickson (1860–1935)Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras
Gordon R. Dickson (1923–2001)Canadian-American science fiction writer
Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874–1954)American mathematician
Eva Dickson (1905–1938)Swedish explorer, rally driver and writer
Oscar Dickson (1823–1897)Swedish explorer of the Arctic
Gloria Dickson (1917–1945)American actress
Ngila Dickson (born 1958)New Zealand costume designer
James Dickson (1738–1822)Scottish nurseryman and botanist

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

Surnames like Dickson

Also a first name

Dickson has been given to 610 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1961. 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.