Hobson

Hobson is the 2,139th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,503 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,503
Rank: 2,139th
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hobson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.0%
Black, not Hispanic 24.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Hobson

John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940)English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism
Valerie Hobson (1917–1998)British actress
William Hobson (1792–1842)first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi
Luke Hobson (born 2003)American swimmer
Mellody Hobson (born 1969)American businesswoman
Ernest William Hobson (1856–1933)British mathematician

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

Surnames like Hobson

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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.