Jameson

Jameson is the 2,785th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,595 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,595
Rank: 2,785th
How common: 1 in 23,700
Per 100,000: 4.2

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

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Jameson

Jenna Jameson (born 1974)American pornographic actress
Fredric Jameson (1934–2024)American academic and literary critic
Robert Jameson (1774–1854)British scientist;
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860)author, penwoman, art historian, governess, literary critic (-1860)
Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917)Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
Louise Jameson (born 1951)English actress
Joyce Jameson (1932–1987)actress
Johnny Jameson (born 1958)Northern Irish footballer

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

Surnames like Jameson

Also a first name

Jameson has been given to 63,091 American babies as a first name since 1922, peaking in 2019. 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.