Simpson

At the 2020 census, 156,097 Americans bore the surname Simpson — 167th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,915.

By the numbers

People: 156,097
Rank: 167th
How common: 1 in 1,915
Per 100,000: 52.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.0%
Black, not Hispanic 22.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Simpson

Jessica Simpson (born 1980)American singer and actress
Wallis Simpson (1896–1986)American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor
O. J. Simpson (1947–2024)American football player and actor
Ashlee Simpson (born 1984)American singer and actress
Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)American paleontologist
Cody Simpson (born 1997)Australian singer
Danny Simpson (born 1987)English association football player
Tom Simpson (1937–1967)professional cyclist

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

Surnames like Simpson

Also a first name

Simpson has been given to 707 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 1921. 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.