Dodson

Dodson is the 967th most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,618 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,392.

By the numbers

People: 35,618
Rank: 967th
How common: 1 in 8,392
Per 100,000: 11.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.1%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dodson

Betty Dodson (1929–2020)American sex educator
Peter Dodson (born 1946)American paleontologist
Aidan Dodson (born 1962)English Egyptologist and historian
Helen Dodson Prince (1905–2002)American astronomer
Jeremy Dodson (born 1987)Samoan athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Dodson

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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.