Hanson

106,689 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hanson in the 2020 census, making it the 288th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,802.

By the numbers

People: 106,689
Rank: 288th
How common: 1 in 2,802
Per 100,000: 35.7

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hanson

Curtis Hanson (1945–2016)American filmmaker
Pauline Hanson (born 1954)Australian politician
Howard Hanson (1896–1981)American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist
Lars Hanson (1886–1965)Swedish film and stage actor
Philip Hanson (born 1999)British racing driver
Hanson (born 1984)American professional wrestler
Duane Hanson (1925–1996)American sculptor
Pontus Hanson (1884–1962)Swedish swimmer and water polo player

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

Surnames like Hanson

Also a first name

Hanson has been given to 1,839 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 2018. 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.