Gibson

Gibson is the 136th most common surname in the United States, shared by 182,917 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,634.

By the numbers

People: 182,917
Rank: 136th
How common: 1 in 1,634
Per 100,000: 61.2

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

White, not Hispanic 69.3%
Black, not Hispanic 21.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gibson

Mel Gibson (born 1956)American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
William Gibson (born 1948)American-Canadian speculative fiction writer
Tyrese Gibson (born 1978)American singer and actor
Althea Gibson (1927–2003)American tennis player
Darron Gibson (born 1987)Irish association football player
Thomas Gibson (born 1962)American actor and director
Debbie Gibson (born 1970)American singer and actress
Taj Gibson (born 1985)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Gibson

Also a first name

Gibson has been given to 5,561 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2013. 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.