How common is the surname Session?

3,019 people in the United States had the surname Session in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,267 Americans. It ranked 10,607th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Session getting more or less common?

More common. 2,654 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,019 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Session

A surname, carried by 3,019 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S250

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Session is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Variant of Sessions.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,019 people named Session in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,267 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,654.

#10,607

rank among US surnames

3,019

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+13.8%

change since 2000 (was #10,996)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,598	Chumley	3,022	102,166
#10,601	Boice	3,021	102,200
#10,603	Hugo	3,020	102,234
#10,607	Kollar	3,019	102,267
#10,613	Kelch	3,018	102,301
#10,614	Boateng	3,017	102,335
#10,615	Vila	3,016	102,369

Who is named Session

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

85% of people named Session identified as Black (not Hispanic), 8.4% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 85%
White (not Hispanic) 8.4%
Two or more races 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Session

Sisson

Session has the Soundex code S250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S250.

Questions

Where does the surname Session come from?: Variant of Sessions.
How common is the surname Session?: 3,019 people in the United States had the surname Session in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,267 Americans. It ranked 10,607th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Session?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Session identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Session getting more or less common?: More common. 2,654 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,019 in 2010, up 14%.