Wasson
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwɔsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wasson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): NW England; Lanarks. see Wason . Further information: The name in this spelling is more common in Ireland than Britain.
- CACanada≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 58K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Kas Watson
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wasson 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)
- Record sources
- 378 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
252,579 named Watson, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Main GB Location (1881): NW England; Lanarks. see Wason . Further information: The name in this spelling is more common in Ireland than Britain. It has been established in the county of Antrim since the late 17th century.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wasson 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 | 252,579as Watson | 1 in 1.3K | 253K | Wasson | 378 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 157 | Wasson | 88 |
| CR Costa Rica | 936as Watson | 1 in 5.4K | 936 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 9 | Wasson | 75 |
| FR France | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 91 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 516as Watson | 1 in 1.5K | 516 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 252as Watson | 1 in 22K | 252 | — | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Wasson | 16 |
| IN India | 69 | 1 in 19M | 69 | Wasson | 46 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 35as Watson | 1 in 2.9K | 35 | — | — |
252,579 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling watson. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)- Thomas C. Wassonb. 1896USAmerican diplomat (1896–1948)
- Isabel Bassett Wassonb. 1897USAmerican petroleum geologist
- Valentina Pavlovna Wassonb. 1901USRussian-American pediatrician, ethnomycologist and author
- William Wassonb. 1923USAmerican priest (1923–2006)
- Craig Wassonb. 1954USAmerican actor (born 1954)
- Gregory Wassonb. 1958USAmerican businessman
- David Wassonb. 1968USAmerican animator
- Gus Wassonb. 1974USAmerican NASCAR driver
- Erin Wassonb. 1982USAmerican model
- Daniel Wassonb. 1984USAmerican soccer 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.5K | #4,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.8K | #4,429 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 209 | #13,704 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 157 | #24,897 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 116 | #3,339 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 77 | — |
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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Wasson mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): NW England; Lanarks. see Wason . Further information: The name in this spelling is more common in Ireland than Britain. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Wasson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wasson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 253 thousand people named Watson, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wasson?
- In India, the national register counted 69 people named Wasson, about 1 in 19 million 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/wassonThe 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, “Wasson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.