Edelson
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Edelson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
- CACanada≈1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 252K (inferred from the name graph)
1,210 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Edelson 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,210 | 1 in 275K | 1.2K | Edelson | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | Edelson | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Edelson | 3 |
| BR Brazil | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 5.2K | Edelson | 74 |
| CO Colombia | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Edelson | 12 |
| PA Panama | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Edelson | 3 |
1,210 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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Apollon Edelsonb. 1827RUarchitect worked in Riga, Latvia (1827-1896)
- Burton Edelsonb. 1926USAmerican naval officer and scientist
- Edward Edelsonb. 1932USAmerican science writer
- Mary Beth Edelsonb. 1933USAmerican artist (1933–2021)
- Heather Edelsonb. 1981USAmerican politician
- Mark Edelsonb. 1984USAmerican politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,568 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #22,971 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70 | #82,471 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Edelson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Edelson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edelson.
- How common is the name Edelson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,210 people named Edelson in 2010, about 1 in 275 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Edelson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edelsonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Edelson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.