Davison
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from the pet form Davie; a variant of Davidson
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/deɪvɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Davison is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 457 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
22,276 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Patronymic from the pet form Davie; a variant of Davidson.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Scottish Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Davison 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 | — | 22,276 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Davison | 457 |
| GB United Kingdom | #427 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Davison | 244 |
| AU Australia | #670 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Davison | 173 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Davison | 173 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Davison | 10 |
| MW Malawi | #970 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Davison | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | #552 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Davison | 91 |
22,276 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. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Davison is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emily Davisonb. 1867GBBritish activist who fought for women's suffrage
- Henry P. Davisonb. 1867USAmerican banker and philanthropist (1867–1922)
- Lex Davisonb. 1923AUAustralian racing driver (1923-1965)
- Janet Rowleyb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican human geneticist (1925–2013)
- Bruce Davisonb. 1946USAmerican actor
- Chris de Burghb. 1948ARnot in their usual nameArgentine - British-Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist
- Jon Davisonb. 1949USAmerican film producer
- Jon Davisonb. 1971USAmerican musician
- Rosanna Davisonb. 1984IEIrish model, activist, and Miss World 2003
- Bryce Davisonb. 1986CAAmerican-Canadian pair skater
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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,617 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 22K | #1,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,639 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Davison mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic from the pet form Davie; a variant of Davidson. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Davison?
- A machine transcription gives /deɪvɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Davison have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Davison, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davison.
- How common is the name Davison?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,276 people named Davison in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Davison compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Davison is the 427th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/davisonThe 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, “Davison” — the 427th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.