Richardson

At the 2020 census, 249,840 Americans bore the surname Richardson — 83rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,196.

By the numbers

People: 249,840
Rank: 83rd
How common: 1 in 1,196
Per 100,000: 83.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 57.5%
Black, not Hispanic 32.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Richardson

Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959)British physicist
Robert Coleman Richardson (1937–2013)American physicist
Natasha Richardson (1963–2009)British actress
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)English writer and printer
Kevin Michael Richardson (born 1964)American actor
Miranda Richardson (born 1958)British actress
Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)British actor
Tony Richardson (1928–1991)English theatre and film director and producer

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

Surnames like Richardson

Also a first name

Richardson has been given to 669 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 2000. 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.