Roberson

At the 2020 census, 54,638 Americans bore the surname Roberson — 599th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,471.

By the numbers

People: 54,638
Rank: 599th
How common: 1 in 5,471
Per 100,000: 18.3

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 Roberson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 48.6%
Black, not Hispanic 42.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Roberson

André Roberson (born 1991)American basketball player
LaTavia Roberson (born 1981)American R&B singer
Bo Roberson (1935–2001)American long jumper and American football wide receiver

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

Surnames like Roberson

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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.