Carlson

At the 2020 census, 115,532 Americans bore the surname Carlson — 263rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,587.

By the numbers

People: 115,532
Rank: 263rd
How common: 1 in 2,587
Per 100,000: 38.7

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Carlson

Chester Carlson (1906–1968)American physicist
Gretchen Carlson (born 1966)American broadcast journalist, author, television personality and female empowerment advocate
Amy Carlson (born 1968)American actress
Richard Carlson (1912–1977)American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter
John Carlson (born 1990)American ice hockey player
Veronica Carlson (1944–2022)English actress
Frank Carlson (1893–1987)American politician who served as the 30th Governor of Kansas
Jessica Carlson (born 1993)American actress

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

Surnames like Carlson

Also a first name

Carlson has been given to 747 American babies as a first name since 1920, peaking in 2016. 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.