Olson

Olson is the 166th most common surname in the United States, shared by 156,271 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,913.

By the numbers

People: 156,271
Rank: 166th
How common: 1 in 1,913
Per 100,000: 52.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Swedish

In the USA, a common anglicization of Swedish Olsson and da, no Olsen, all meaning "son of Olaf".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Olson

Kaitlin Olson (born 1975)American actress
Bree Olson (born 1986)former American pornographic actress
Barbara Olson (1955–2001)American lawyer

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

Surnames like Olson

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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.