Gilbertson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Gilbert’; first attested Nicholas Gilberdson 1379 PTY
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɪɫbɝtsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gilbertson is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
‘son of Gilbert’; first attested Nicholas Gilberdson 1379 PTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilbertson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8.6K | — |
| NO Norway | — | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 6 | — |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Gilbertson is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Americanized form of Norwegian Gilbertsen or a cognate in Danish or Swedish.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, patronymic from the personal name Gilbert.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Julius C. Gilbertsonb. 1875USAmerican politician
- Bernt Gilbertsonb. 1912CACanadian politician
- Larry D. Gilbertsonb. 1917USAmerican politician (1917-1986)
- Charlotte Gilbertsonb. 1922USAmerican artist (1922-2014)
- Robert Lee Gilbertsonb. 1925USAmerican mycologist (1925-2011)
- Stan Gilbertsonb. 1944USAmerican ice hockey player
- David Gilbertsonb. 1949USAmerican judge
- Ashley Gilbertsonb. 1978USAustralian photojournalist (born 1978)
- Lucas Gilbertsonb. 1982CACanadian actor
- Harrison Sloan Gilbertsonb. 1993AUAustralian actor
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.6K | #4,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,183 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,104 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,631 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #176,896 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
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 Gilbertson mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Gilbert’; first attested Nicholas Gilberdson 1379 PTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gilbertson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɪɫbɝtsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gilbertson have the most bearers?
- Gilbertson is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Gilbertson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilbertsonThe 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, “Gilbertson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.