Vinson

At the 2020 census, 24,417 Americans bore the surname Vinson — 1,418th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,200.

By the numbers

People: 24,417
Rank: 1,418th
How common: 1 in 12,200
Per 100,000: 8.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.2%
Black, not Hispanic 27.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Vinson

Fred M. Vinson (1890–1953)chief justice of the United States from 1946 to 1953
Sharni Vinson (born 1983)Australian actress and dancer
Maribel Vinson (1911–1961)figure skater
Carl Vinson (1883–1981)Democratic United States Congressman
Helen Vinson (1907–1999)actress
Clarence Vinson (born 1978)boxer
Eddie Vinson (1917–1988)American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter

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

Surnames like Vinson

Also a first name

Vinson has been given to 3,841 American babies as a first name since 1898, peaking in 1969. See it as a given name.

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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.