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    The surname Edmundson

    A patronymic surname, carried by 3,196 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex E355

    Edmundson: #10,085 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Edmundson #10,085, 3,196 people Edmundson: #10,085 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Edmundson #10,085, 3,196 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Edmundson is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    From Edmund + -son.

    Edmundson is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,196 people named Edmundson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,604 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,143.

    #10,085
    rank among US surnames
    3,196
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #9,485)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,079Gaudette3,19896,543
    #10,082Kiker3,19796,574
    #10,085Risinger3,19696,604
    #10,088Kahle3,19596,634
    #10,090Koziol3,19496,664
    #10,092Mines3,19396,694

    Who is named Edmundson

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

    77% of people named Edmundson identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Edmundson

    Edmundson has the Soundex code E355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E355.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Edmundson come from?
    From Edmund + -son.
    How common is the surname Edmundson?
    3,196 people in the United States had the surname Edmundson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,604 Americans. It ranked 10,085th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Edmundson?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Edmundson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Edmundson?
    Edmundson is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Edmundson getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,143 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,196 in 2010, up 1.7%.