Harrison

At the 2020 census, 172,637 Americans bore the surname Harrison — 146th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,731.

By the numbers

People: 172,637
Rank: 146th
How common: 1 in 1,731
Per 100,000: 57.8

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

White, not Hispanic 66.1%
Black, not Hispanic 23.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Harrison

William Henry Harrison (1773–1841)president of the United States in 1841
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)President of the United States, 1889-1893
George Harrison (1943–2001)English musician and member of the Beatles
Rex Harrison (1908–1990)British actor
Harry Harrison (1924–2012)American science fiction author
John Harrison (1693–1776)British clockworker
Anna Harrison (1775–1864)First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1841
Caroline Harrison (1832–1892)First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892

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

Surnames like Harrison

Also a first name

Harrison has been given to 99,462 American babies as a first name since 1880, 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.