Dickerson
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dickerson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 6.4K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.3K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 474 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dickerson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Dickerson | 5 |
| US United States | #574 | 51,889 | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Dickerson | 474 |
| GH Ghana | #279 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Dickerson | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Dickerson | 151 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Dickerson | 5 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Dickerson | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | #548 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Dickerson | 25 |
| IS Iceland | #994 | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Dickerson | 3 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahlon Dickersonb. 1770USAmerican politician (1770-1853)
- Philemon Dickersonb. 1788USAmerican politician (1788-1862)
- William Worth Dickersonb. 1851USAmerican politician (1851-1923)
- George Dickersonb. 1933USAmerican actor, writer and poet (1933-2015)
- Chris Dickersonb. 1939USAmerican bodybuilder (1939–2021)
- Ernest Dickersonb. 1951USAmerican film director
- Dez Dickersonb. 1955USAmerican guitarist and singer; member of Prince's band, the Revolution
- Eric Dickersonb. 1960USAmerican football player (born 1960)
- Michael Dickersonb. 1975USAmerican basketball player (born 1975)
- Corey Dickersonb. 1989USAmerican baseball player
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 52K | #659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 51K | #602 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 50K | #670 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dickerson mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dickerson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 thousand people named Dickerson in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dickerson.
- How common is the name Dickerson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,889 people named Dickerson in 2010, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Dickerson compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Dickerson is the 279th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Dickerson” — the 279th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.