Paulson

At the 2020 census, 18,659 Americans bore the surname Paulson — 1,889th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,000.

By the numbers

People: 18,659
Rank: 1,889th
How common: 1 in 16,000
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

. Found parallel in many other languages, such as Norwegian and Danish Poulsen, Polish Pawelowicz, Slovene Pavič, Pavlovič etc.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Paulson

Sarah Paulson (born 1974)American actress
Henry Paulson (born 1946)74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
John Paulson (born 1955)American family office manager
Bjørn Paulson (1923–2008)Athletics competitor and jurist
Brandon Paulson (born 1973)Olympic wrestler
Anna Paulson (born 1984)Swedish footballer

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

Surnames like Paulson

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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.