Ericson

Ericson is the 5,812th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,734 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 52,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,734
Rank: 5,812th
How common: 1 in 52,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

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

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ericson

John Ericson (1926–2020)German-American film and television actor
Annalisa Ericson (1913–2011)Swedish actress
Eric Ericson (1918–2013)Swedish conductor
Georg Ericson (1919–2002)Swedish footballer
Håkan Ericson (born 1960)Swedish association football player
Bo Ericson (1919–1970)Swedish hammer thrower
Nils Ericson (1802–1870)Swedish businessman

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

Surnames like Ericson

Also a first name

Ericson has been given to 738 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.