Olsson

Olsson is the 11,789th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,541 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,541
Rank: 11,789th
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

Origin Swedish, from Old Norse

Borrowed from Swedish Olsson.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Olsson

Martin Olsson (born 1988)Swedish association football player
Jonas Olsson (born 1983)Swedish association football player, born 1983
Christian Olsson (born 1980)Swedish triple jumper
Kristoffer Olsson (born 1995)Swedish footballer
Ty Olsson (born 1974)Canadian actor
Johan Olsson (born 1980)Swedish cross-country skier
Anna Olsson (born 1976)Swedish cross-country skier
Jan Olsson (1944–2023)Swedish association football player and manager

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

Surnames like Olsson

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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.