Stevenson
Stevenson is the 445th most common surname in the United States, shared by 72,286 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,135.
By the numbers
- People
- 72,286
- Rank
- 445th
- How common
- 1 in 4,135
- Per 100,000
- 24.2
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 Stevenson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)Scottish novelist and poet
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965)American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953
- Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914)American politician (1835–1914); Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
- Teófilo Stevenson (1952–2012)Cuban boxer
- Ray Stevenson (1964–2023)British actor
- Ian Stevenson (1918–2007)Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher
- Miriam Stevenson (born 1933)American actress and model
- Juliet Stevenson (born 1956)English actor
People named Stevenson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Stevenson
Also a first name
Stevenson has been given to 1,559 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1953. 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.