Donaldson

Donaldson is the 982nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,108 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,514.

By the numbers

People: 35,108
Rank: 982nd
How common: 1 in 8,514
Per 100,000: 11.8

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

White, not Hispanic 69.3%
Black, not Hispanic 21.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Donaldson

Simon Donaldson (born 1957)English mathematician
Roger Donaldson (born 1945)New Zealand film director
Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947)novelist
Lily Donaldson (born 1987)English model
Lou Donaldson (1926–2024)American saxophonist
Julia Donaldson (born 1948)English children's writer
Clayton Donaldson (born 1984)association football player
Walter Donaldson (1893–1947)American songwriter

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

Surnames like Donaldson

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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.