Elson

Elson is the 11,295th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,673 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,673
Rank: 11,295th
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.89

Where the name comes from

Possibly from Middle English elson, alternative spelling of elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Elson

Karen Elson (born 1979)British model and musician
Andrea Elson (born 1969)American actress and model
Francisco Elson (born 1976)Dutch basketball player
Rebecca Elson (1960–1999)Canadian astronomer and writer

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

Surnames like Elson

Also a first name

Elson has been given to 1,333 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1924. 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.