Iverson

Iverson is the 2,389th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,900 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,900
Rank: 2,389th
How common: 1 in 20,100
Per 100,000: 5.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Danish or Norwegian

or Norwegian Iversen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Iverson

Allen Iverson (born 1975)American basketball player
Kenneth E. Iverson (1920–2004)Canadian computer scientist
Colton Iverson (born 1989)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Iverson

Ivey
Ives

Also a first name

Iverson has been given to 2,241 American babies as a first name since 1891, peaking in 2024. 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.