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    The surname Greeson

    A surname, carried by 3,154 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G625

    Greeson: #10,219 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greeson #10,219, 3,154 people Greeson: #10,219 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greeson #10,219, 3,154 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greeson is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,154 people named Greeson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,890 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,092.

    #10,219
    rank among US surnames
    3,154
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #9,646)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,211Broadus3,15697,828
    #10,215Shue3,15597,859
    #10,219Greeson3,15497,890
    #10,224Michelson3,15397,921
    #10,228Trammel3,15297,952

    Who is named Greeson

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

    94% of people named Greeson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greeson

    Greeson has the Soundex code G625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G625.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Greeson?
    3,154 people in the United States had the surname Greeson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,890 Americans. It ranked 10,219th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greeson?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Greeson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Greeson getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,092 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,154 in 2010, up 2.0%.