Wilkerson

Wilkerson is the 745th most common surname in the United States, shared by 45,488 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,571.

By the numbers

People: 45,488
Rank: 745th
How common: 1 in 6,571
Per 100,000: 15.2

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

White, not Hispanic 61.7%
Black, not Hispanic 28.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wilkerson

David Wilkerson (1931–2011)American pentecostal evangelist
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961)American journalist
Brandie Wilkerson (born 1992)Canadian beach volleyball player
Lawrence Wilkerson (born 1945)United States Army colonel (ret.), Chief of Staff to Colin Powell

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

Surnames like Wilkerson

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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.