Josephson

Josephson is the 9,163rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,422 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 87,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,422
Rank: 9,163rd
How common: 1 in 87,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

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

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Josephson

Brian David Josephson (born 1940)Welsh physicist
Erland Josephson (1923–2012)Swedish actor, film director and author
Ernst Josephson (1851–1906)Swedish artist

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

Surnames like Josephson

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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.