Ellerson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: late forms of ELLISON; first attested Robert Ellerson 1672 HTY
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɫɝsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ellerson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 699K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 699K (inferred from the name graph)
476 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
late forms of ELLISON; first attested Robert Ellerson 1672 HTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ellerson 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 | 476 | 1 in 699K | 477 | Ellerson | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 49 | Ellerson | 24 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Ellerson | 1 |
| HN Honduras | — | — | — | Ellerson | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | 1 | — | — |
476 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Rich Ellersonb. 1953USAmerican football player and coach (born 1953)
- Gary Ellersonb. 1963USAmerican football player
- Beti EllersonUSAmerican women activist
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 477 | #47,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 476 | #45,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 456 | #44,430 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Ellerson mean, and where does it come from?
- late forms of ELLISON; first attested Robert Ellerson 1672 HTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Ellerson?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɫɝsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ellerson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 476 people named Ellerson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ellerson.
- Where is Ellerson most common?
- Ellerson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 699 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ellerson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 476 people named Ellerson in 2010, about 1 in 699 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ellersonThe 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, “Ellerson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.