How common is the surname Sessions?

7,593 people in the United States had the surname Sessions in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,662 Americans. It ranked 4,671st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Sessions?

Jeff Sessions, American politician and lawyer (born 1946), followed by Roger Sessions.

Where is the surname Sessions most common?

Wikidata records people named Sessions in the United States and the United Kingdom.

How do you pronounce Sessions?

Sessions is /ˈsɛʃənz/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Sessions getting more or less common?

More common. 7,204 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,593 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Sessions

A surname, carried by 7,593 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈsɛʃənz/ 2 syllables Soundex S252

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sessions is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,593 people named Sessions in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,662 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,204.

#4,671

rank among US surnames

7,593

people in 2010

2.6

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #4,528)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,666	Osuna	7,601	40,619
#4,667	Folsom	7,598	40,635
#4,669	Sena	7,597	40,640
#4,671	Sessions	7,593	40,662

Who is named Sessions

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

80% of people named Sessions identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sessionss

9 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jeff Sessions
American politician and lawyer (born 1946)
Roger Sessions
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
Ramon Sessions
American basketball player (born 1986)
John Sessions
British comedian (1953–2020)
Pete Sessions
American politician, born 1955
Katherine Olivia Sessions
American botanist and landscape architect (1857-1940)
William S. Sessions
American judge (1930–2020)
Almira Sessions
American actress (1888-1974)
Carlisle Floyd
American composer (1926–2021)

Notable Sessionss come mostly from the United States (8) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Sessums

Surnames that sound like Sessions

Sessoms

Sessions has the Soundex code S252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S252.

Questions

How common is the surname Sessions?: 7,593 people in the United States had the surname Sessions in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,662 Americans. It ranked 4,671st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sessions?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Sessions identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Sessions?: Jeff Sessions, American politician and lawyer (born 1946), followed by Roger Sessions.
Where is the surname Sessions most common?: Wikidata records people named Sessions in the United States and the United Kingdom.
How do you pronounce Sessions?: Sessions is /ˈsɛʃənz/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Sessions getting more or less common?: More common. 7,204 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,593 in 2010, up 5.4%.
What are other spellings of Sessions?: Sessums.