How common is the surname Franson?

1,690 people in the United States had the surname Franson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. It ranked 16,868th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Franson?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Franson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Franson getting more or less common?

More common. 1,660 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,690 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Franson

A surname, carried by 1,690 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Franson is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,690 people named Franson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,660.

#16,868

rank among US surnames

1,690

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #16,042)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,860	Cermak	1,692	182,474
#16,864	Doyal	1,691	182,582
#16,868	Chmiel	1,690	182,690
#16,876	Melnik	1,689	182,798

Who is named Franson

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

92% of people named Franson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Franson

Franson has the Soundex code F652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F652.

Questions

How common is the surname Franson?: 1,690 people in the United States had the surname Franson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. It ranked 16,868th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Franson?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Franson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Franson getting more or less common?: More common. 1,660 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,690 in 2010, up 1.8%.