Parsons

At the 2020 census, 64,627 Americans bore the surname Parsons — 509th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,625.

By the numbers

People: 64,627
Rank: 509th
How common: 1 in 4,625
Per 100,000: 21.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

An occupational surname for a child or a servant of a parson.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Parsons

Jim Parsons (born 1973)American actor
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)American sociologist
Alan Parsons (born 1948)British audio engineer, musician, and record producer
Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931)inventor of the steam turbine
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867)Anglo-Irish astronomer
Estelle Parsons (born 1927)American actress
Lucy Parsons (1851–1942)American communist anarchist labor organizer
Gram Parsons (1946–1973)American singer-songwriter

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

Surnames like Parsons

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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.