How common is the surname Clawson?

10,631 people in the United States had the surname Clawson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,042 Americans. It ranked 3,360th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Clawson?

John Clawson, basketball player (1944–2018), followed by Curt Clawson.

Where is the surname Clawson most common?

Wikidata records people named Clawson in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Is the surname Clawson getting more or less common?

More common. 10,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,631 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Clawson

A surname, carried by 10,631 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clawson is more common than 97.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 10,631 people named Clawson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,042 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,489.

#3,360

rank among US surnames

10,631

people in 2010

3.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,150)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,351	Feng	10,687	28,890
#3,352	Eng	10,682	28,903
#3,353	Farrow	10,672	28,930
#3,354	Islam	10,670	28,936
#3,355	Stowe	10,668	28,941
#3,356	Olguín	10,660	28,963
#3,357	Younger	10,658	28,968

Who is named Clawson

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

93% of people named Clawson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Clawsons

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

John Clawson
Basketball player (1944–2018)
Curt Clawson
American politician (born 1959)
Grace Clawson
British-born American supercentenarian, 1887–2002
John Willard
American playwright (1885-1942)
J. A. C. Redford
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and writer, born 1953

Notable Clawsons come mostly from the United States (4) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Clawson

Clawson has the Soundex code C425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C425.

Questions

How common is the surname Clawson?: 10,631 people in the United States had the surname Clawson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,042 Americans. It ranked 3,360th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clawson?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Clawson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Clawson?: John Clawson, basketball player (1944–2018), followed by Curt Clawson.
Where is the surname Clawson most common?: Wikidata records people named Clawson in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Is the surname Clawson getting more or less common?: More common. 10,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,631 in 2010, up 1.4%.