Erickson
78,808 people in the United States were counted with the surname Erickson in the 2020 census, making it the 402nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,793.
By the numbers
- People
- 78,808
- Rank
- 402nd
- How common
- 1 in 3,793
- Per 100,000
- 26.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Nordic, from a patronymic
and Norwegian Eriksen or Swedish Eriksson, equivalent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Erickson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Erickson
- Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980)American psychiatrist
- Leif Erickson (1911–1986)American actor
- Roky Erickson (1947–2019)American singer and guitarist
- Arthur Erickson (1924–2009)Canadian architect and urban planner
- Rica Erickson (1908–2009)Western Australian writer, historian, botanist and artist
- John E. Erickson (1863–1946)American governor of Montana
- Ethan Erickson (born 1973)American actor
- Keith Erickson (born 1944)American basketball player
People named Erickson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Erickson
Also a first name
Erickson has been given to 1,187 American babies as a first name since 1959, peaking in 2008. 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.