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The SON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,843 4189 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 386 11811 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +7457 +7622 +0.002 +21
Other Countries
Australia 155 9567 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SON surname.

Ethnic distribution of SON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 995 12.69
White (Hispanic) 279 3.56
Mixed Race 233 2.97
Black/African American 143 1.82
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.37
Asian/Pacific 6,164 78.59

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SON in historical publications

B OMGAR SON. According toGent. Mag., Oct. 1S20, this is the Germ, haum-gai-tm, tree-garden, orchard. The Fr. hon-gargoii is a far likelier etymon. Ferguson thinks it a patronymic of " A-Sax. hongar, a fatal spear," Init there is no proof of such a name having existed.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SON

The following words are slight variants of SON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.