Judson

At the 2020 census, 4,148 Americans bore the surname Judson — 7,694th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 72,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,148
Rank: 7,694th
How common: 1 in 72,100
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.3%
Black, not Hispanic 11.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Judson

Whitcomb L. Judson (1846–1909)inventor
Adoniram Judson (1788–1850)American missionary

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

Surnames like Judson

Also a first name

Judson has been given to 13,881 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2023. 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.