Henson

45,780 people in the United States were counted with the surname Henson in the 2020 census, making it the 741st most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,529.

By the numbers

People: 45,780
Rank: 741st
How common: 1 in 6,529
Per 100,000: 15.3

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

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 10.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Henson

Jim Henson (1936–1990)American puppeteer
Taraji P. Henson (born 1970)American actress
Elden Henson (born 1977)American actor
Matthew Henson (1866–1955)American explorer
John Henson (born 1990)American basketball player
Sammie Henson (born 1971)Olympic wrestler
Keaton Henson (born 1988)English musician and artist
Brian Henson (born 1963)American puppeteer

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

Surnames like Henson

Also a first name

Henson has been given to 553 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2015. 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.