Dyson

At the 2020 census, 11,754 Americans bore the surname Dyson — 2,996th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,754
Rank: 2,996th
How common: 1 in 25,400
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

A patronymic English surname, from compare Tyson, Tennyson.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.3%
Black, not Hispanic 35.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dyson

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)theoretical physicist and mathematician
Tracy Caldwell Dyson (born 1969)American chemist and NASA astronaut
James Dyson (born 1947)British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company
Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939)English astronomer and Astronomer Royal
Esther Dyson (born 1951)Swiss-American journalist
George Dyson (1883–1964)English composer

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

Also a first name

Dyson has been given to 1,588 American babies as a first name since 1979, peaking in 2012. 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.