How common is the surname Parsons?

67,310 people in the United States had the surname Parsons in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,587 Americans. It ranked 498th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Parsons?

Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (1902 – 1979), followed by Alan Parsons.

Where is the surname Parsons most common?

Wikidata records people named Parsons in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 3 other countries.

How do you pronounce Parsons?

Parsons is /ˈpɑɹsənz/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Parsons getting more or less common?

More common. 66,203 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 67,310 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Parsons

An occupational surname, carried by 67,310 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈpɑɹsənz/ 2 syllables Soundex P625

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Parsons is more common than 99.7% of them.

Origin

An occupational surname for a child or a servant of a parson. * In the United States adopted by bearers of one or more similar sounding Jewish surnames, and of the Swedish surnames Pärsson and Persson.

Parsons is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 67,310 people named Parsons in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 4,587 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 66,203.

#498

rank among US surnames

67,310

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #453)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#489	Schroeder	67,977	4,542
#490	Maxwell	67,961	4,543
#491	Waters	67,929	4,545
#492	Logan	67,909	4,546
#493	Camacho	67,893	4,548
#494	Strickland	67,769	4,556
#495	Norman	67,704	4,560

Who is named Parsons

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

91% of people named Parsons identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Parsonss

36 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Talcott Parsons
American sociologist (1902 – 1979)
Alan Parsons
British audio engineer, musician, and record producer, born 1948
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Anglo-Irish astronomer (1800-1867)
Estelle Parsons
American actress, born 1927
Lucy Parsons
American communist anarchist labor organizer (1853–1942)
Gram Parsons
American singer-songwriter, 1946–1973
Karyn Parsons
American actress, author, and comedian (born 1956)
Kane Parsons
American filmmaker, born 2005
Johnnie Parsons
American racing driver (1918–1984)
Chandler Parsons
American basketball player (born 1988)
Louella Parsons
American gossip columnist (1881-1972)
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

Notable Parsonss come mostly from the United States (29), the United Kingdom (3) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Parsons

Parsons has the Soundex code P625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P625.

Questions

Where does the surname Parsons come from?: An occupational surname for a child or a servant of a parson. * In the United States adopted by bearers of one or more similar sounding Jewish surnames, and of the Swedish surnames Pärsson and Persson.
How common is the surname Parsons?: 67,310 people in the United States had the surname Parsons in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,587 Americans. It ranked 498th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Parsons?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Parsons identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Parsons?: Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (1902 – 1979), followed by Alan Parsons.
Where is the surname Parsons most common?: Wikidata records people named Parsons in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 3 other countries.
How do you pronounce Parsons?: Parsons is /ˈpɑɹsənz/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Parsons?: Parsons is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Parsons getting more or less common?: More common. 66,203 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 67,310 in 2010, up 1.7%.