Monson

At the 2020 census, 10,231 Americans bore the surname Monson — 3,413th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,231
Rank: 3,413th
How common: 1 in 29,200
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Swedish

Respelling of Swedish Månsson.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Monson

Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018)president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Jeff Monson (born 1971)American mixed martial artist
Walter Monson (1909–1988)Canadian ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Monson

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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.