Popularity of the last name by country

France

• Paris (4,071)
• Pas-de-Calais (879)
• Morbihan (801)
• Finistère (732)
• Hérault (582)
• Somme (492)
• Bouches-du-Rhône (400)
• Ardennes (377)
• Nord (332)
• Var (256)
• Alpes-Maritimes (227)
• Seine-Maritime (227)
• Rhône (176)
• Yvelines (176)
• Gironde (158)
• Manche (130)
• Calvados (108)
• Puy-de-Dôme (107)
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques (106)
• Loire-Atlantique (105)
• Haute-Garonne (94)
• Ille-et-Vilaine (81)
• Hauts-de-Seine (74)
• Aube (72)
• Meurthe-et-Moselle (70)
• Aisne (64)
• Côte-d'Or (61)
• Bas-Rhin (61)
• Aveyron (59)
• Haut-Rhin (56)
• Seine-et-Marne (56)
• Marne (53)
• Seine-Saint-Denis (51)
• Isère (47)
• Moselle (47)
• Vienne (46)
• Lot (45)
• Vaucluse (44)
• Val-de-Marne (43)
• Côtes-d'Armor (42)
• Indre-et-Loire (41)
• Indre (39)
• Meuse (39)
• Hautes-Alpes (38)
• Gard (37)
• Oise (37)
• Charente (35)
• Eure (34)
• Maine-et-Loire (34)
• Vendée (32)
• Loire (31)
• Saône-et-Loire (30)
• Loiret (29)
• Dordogne (26)
• Tarn-et-Garonne (26)
• Savoie (25)
• Doubs (24)
• Aude (23)
• Loir-et-Cher (23)
• Tarn (23)

All countries

• United Kingdom (479,019)
• United States (53,761)
• New Zealand (31,085)
• Australia (23,516)
• France (14,130)
• Finland (12,952)
• Canada (8,198)
• Ireland (7,946)
• Netherlands (5,149)
• Belgium (4,423)
• Unknown country (3,592)
• Sweden (2,324)
• Réunion (1,929)
• Algeria (1,820)
• Latvia (1,516)
• Denmark (1,473)
• Estonia (1,166)
• Germany (930)
• India (626)
• Switzerland (568)
• Indonesia (568)
• Italy (442)
• Russian Federation (366)
• Norway (309)
• Spain (255)
• South Africa (235)
• Turkey (162)
• Tunisia (142)
• Viet Nam (129)
• Colombia (124)
• China (113)
• Egypt (112)
• Mexico (96)
• Austria (93)
• Gibraltar (92)
• Morocco (89)
• Jamaica (79)
• Portugal (70)
• Greece (68)
• Argentina (67)

Origine of last name

THOMSON : 1: Scottish English and northern Irish: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Thompson">Thompson</a>.2: Scottish: sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic McThomas; see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McTavish">McTavish</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McComish">McComish</a>.3: Americanized form of Danish Norwegian and North German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Thomsen">Thomsen</a>. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Thompson">Thompson</a>.4: Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Thomsson a cognate of 3 above.