Henderson

210,128 people in the United States were counted with the surname Henderson in the 2020 census, making it the 111th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,422.

By the numbers

People: 210,128
Rank: 111th
How common: 1 in 1,422
Per 100,000: 70.3

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

White, not Hispanic 57.3%
Black, not Hispanic 32.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Henderson

Jordan Henderson (born 1990)English association football player
Arthur Henderson (1863–1935)British politician
Richard Henderson (born 1945)Nobel prize winning British biochemist
Dean Henderson (born 1997)English association football player
Shirley Henderson (born 1965)British actress
Florence Henderson (1934–2016)American actress and singer
Logan Henderson (born 1989)American actor and singer
Ella Henderson (born 1996)British singer

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

Surnames like Henderson

Also a first name

Henderson has been given to 4,293 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. 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.