Pärson

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Pärson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). Doublet of person and persona.

  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 25K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 298K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

13,209 people, 2010

Record sources
20 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Parson in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Pärson: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pärson
  1. Middle Englishpersoun(measured from records)
  2. Medieval Latinpersona“parson“parson, person”(measured from records)
  3. Latinpersona“person”(measured from records)

From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). Doublet of person and persona.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Pärson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pärson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States13,2091 in 25K13KParson20
AR Argentina971 in 469K97——
NL Netherlands581 in 298K58—2
DK Denmark91 in 652K9——
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines81 in 13K8——

13,209 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Pärson is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, Japanese, Arabic

    Also written Parson, Pãrsõn, Pârsôn, Pårsõn, Pàrsôn

  • Spanish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Parson, Parsöñ, Påršon, Pärsön, Paŕson

  • Lao surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Parson

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Parson

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada

    Also written Parson

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
190019201940196019802000Arne Pärson, b. 1906Jon Pärson, b. 1933Anja Pärson, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pärson mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). Doublet of person and persona. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
In which country does Pärson have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Pärson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled parson.
Where is Pärson most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pärson is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pärson?
In the United States, the national register counted 13,209 people named Pärson in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pärson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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