Popularity of the last name by country
United States
- California (20,033)
- Missouri (11,783)
- Virginia (10,968)
- New York (10,567)
- North Carolina (10,045)
- Pennsylvania (10,016)
- Maryland (9,770)
- Illinois (9,727)
- Kentucky (7,394)
- Colorado (6,114)
- Ohio (5,234)
- Massachusetts (5,194)
- Tennessee (4,839)
- Kansas (4,573)
- Indiana (4,475)
- South Carolina (4,441)
- Michigan (4,025)
- Texas (3,981)
- New Jersey (3,816)
- Maine (2,893)
- Alabama (2,716)
- Iowa (2,498)
- Georgia (2,462)
- Arkansas (2,122)
- Washington (1,905)
- West Virginia (1,903)
- Mississippi (1,875)
- Utah (1,863)
- Minnesota (1,733)
- Connecticut (1,647)
- Oregon (1,629)
- New Hampshire (1,621)
- Oklahoma (1,573)
- Florida (1,366)
- Vermont (1,184)
- Nebraska (1,075)
- Wisconsin (917)
- Montana (899)
- Louisiana (828)
- Idaho (734)
- Arizona (715)
- North Dakota (687)
- New Mexico (529)
- Wyoming (403)
- South Dakota (400)
- Delaware (290)
- Rhode Island (275)
- Hawaii (272)
- Nevada (271)
- Alaska (91)
All countries
- United Kingdom (514,544)
- United States (177,961)
- Australia (24,183)
- Ireland (23,275)
- New Zealand (16,426)
- Canada (13,624)
- France (6,328)
- Unknown country (3,329)
- Germany (832)
- Netherlands (783)
- Belgium (741)
- Jamaica (598)
- Italy (569)
- Switzerland (446)
- India (392)
- South Africa (359)
- Spain (337)
- Mexico (227)
- Russian Federation (222)
- Colombia (209)
- Sweden (205)
- Indonesia (183)
- Argentina (163)
- China (160)
- Denmark (140)
- Norway (129)
- Cuba (113)
- Egypt (110)
- Estonia (110)
- Turkey (93)
- Greenland (92)
- Austria (89)
- Finland (88)
- Peru (88)
- Greece (81)
- Chile (80)
- Portugal (72)
- Poland (62)
- Barbados (58)
- Israel (55)
Origine of last name
SIMPSON : 1: Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m) Sime (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Sim">Sim</a>) + -son.2: English: occasionally a variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Sumsion">Sumsion</a> with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant a dialect feature of southwestern England.3: English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’ while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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