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    The surname Willison

    A patronymic surname, carried by 3,199 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W425

    Willison: #10,075 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Willison #10,075, 3,199 people Willison: #10,075 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Willison #10,075, 3,199 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Willison is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    From a diminutive form of Will + -son.

    Willison is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,199 people named Willison in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,513 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,056.

    #10,075
    rank among US surnames
    3,199
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #9,761)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,068Creager3,20296,423
    #10,072Cranston3,20096,483
    #10,075Nemec3,19996,513
    #10,079Gaudette3,19896,543
    #10,082Kiker3,19796,574

    Who is named Willison

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

    90% of people named Willison identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • 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 Willison

    Willison has the Soundex code W425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W425.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Willison come from?
    From a diminutive form of Will + -son.
    How common is the surname Willison?
    3,199 people in the United States had the surname Willison in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,513 Americans. It ranked 10,075th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Willison?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Willison identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Willison?
    Willison is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Willison getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,056 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,199 in 2010, up 4.7%.