Morson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from Morse?
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɔɹsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 37K
- GYGuyana1 in 1.8Kas Morrison
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Morson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
121,130 named Morrison, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Morrison in US United States.
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)
patronymic from Morse?
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morson 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 | 121,130as Morrison | 1 in 2.7K | 121K | Morrison | 66 |
| GY Guyana | 417as Morrison | 1 in 1.8K | 417 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 292as Morrison | 1 in 171K | 292 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 227as Morison | 1 in 200K | 227 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 131as Morrison | 1 in 78K | 131 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 108as Morrison | 1 in 51K | 108 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 19 | 1 in 2.8K | 19 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 2 | 1 in 37K | 13 | — | — |
121,130 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
- Walter Morsonb. 1851CACanadian politician
- John MorsonGBBritish Cistercian monk
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 588 | #40,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 515 | #40,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 492 | #43,811 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 19 | #163 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #225 |
| 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 Morson mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Morse? Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɹsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Morrison, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Morson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morson is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morson?
- In St. Kitts & Nevis, the national register counted 19 people named Morson in 2026, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Morson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morsonThe 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, “Morson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.