Kidson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'son of Kid' (Christopher); first attested John, Richard Kydson 1522 FrY, 1531 GildY
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kidsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kidson is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- ZASouth Africa
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'son of Kid' (Christopher); first attested John, Richard Kydson 1522 FrY, 1531 GildY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Kidson is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Son of Kidd (iii).
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Frank Kidsonb. 1855GBBritish folksong collector and musicologist (1855-1926)
- Edward Kidsonb. 1882NZmeteorologist, scientific administrator (1882–1939)
- Elsa Beatrice Kidsonb. 1905NZNew Zealand soil scientist, sculptor (1905–1979)
- Peter Kidsonb. 1925GBEnglish art historian (1925-2019)
- Michael Kidsonb. 1929GBBritish schoolmaster (1929–2015)
- Fiona Clare Wodehouseb. 1958GBnot in their usual name(born 1958)
- Lyn M. Kidsonb. 1964AUAustralian academic
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #348,117 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Kidson mean, and where does it come from?
- 'son of Kid' (Christopher); first attested John, Richard Kydson 1522 FrY, 1531 GildY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Kidson?
- A machine transcription gives /kidsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kidson have the most bearers?
- Kidson is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
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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, “Kidson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.