Wesson

At the 2020 census, 5,018 Americans bore the surname Wesson — 6,501st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,018
Rank: 6,501st
How common: 1 in 59,600
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

A patronymic surname from literally son of Wes, the latter a diminutive of the male given name Wesley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.3%
Black, not Hispanic 24.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Wesson

Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906)American gunsmith

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

Surnames like Wesson

Also a first name

Wesson has been given to 3,224 American babies as a first name since 2004, peaking in 2021. 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.