How common is the surname Alverson?

3,456 people in the United States had the surname Alverson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,336 Americans. It ranked 9,407th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Alverson getting more or less common?

More common. 3,438 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,456 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Alverson

A surname, carried by 3,456 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Alverson is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,456 people named Alverson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,336 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,438.

#9,407

rank among US surnames

3,456

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #8,782)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,399	Edinger	3,459	89,259
#9,403	Samayoa	3,458	89,284
#9,405	Claussen	3,457	89,310
#9,407	Alverson	3,456	89,336
#9,412	Johannes	3,455	89,362
#9,415	Meisner	3,454	89,388

Who is named Alverson

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

88% of people named Alverson identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Alverson

Alverson has the Soundex code A416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A416.

Questions

How common is the surname Alverson?: 3,456 people in the United States had the surname Alverson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,336 Americans. It ranked 9,407th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Alverson?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Alverson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Alverson getting more or less common?: More common. 3,438 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,456 in 2010, up 0.5%.