Newson

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Newson is a surname, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Son of someone called New; or different form of Newsome.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 26◐
  • GLGreenland1 in 43
  • NONorway1 in 58

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈513K ●

across 12 countries

#880 ●

of 21M surnames

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
374 ●

500K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 26 ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

NielsenLatin · Danish●809K records
นีลเซ่นThai · Thai●183 records
닐슨Hangul · Korean●0 records
ΝίλσενGreek · Greek●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nielsen in DK Denmark, CA Canada, TH Thailand and 7 more, Nielson in US United States, AU Australia, IT Italy and 4 more, Nilsson in SE Sweden, FI Finland, DE Germany and 3 more and Nilsen in NO Norway.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Son of someone called New; or different form of Newsome.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Newson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#1222,355△57K rec.1 in 26222KNielsen260
SE Sweden#3145,46396K rec.1 in 70145KNilsson191
NO Norway#494,971△16K rec.1 in 5895KNilsen123
US United States#84442,773276K rec.1 in 7.8K43KNielson374
GB United Kingdom—16,51112K rec.—listedNewson127
CA Canada#7678,4667.8K rec.——Nielsen131
AU Australia—8,0167.4K rec.—1Nielson100
FI Finland#5042,998△323 rec.1 in 1.9K3KNilsson26
DE Germany—2,5332.3K rec.—listedNilsson84
TH Thailand—2,0161.3K rec.—#304,925Nielsen74
AR Argentina—1,3970 rec.1 in 33K1.4K—1
GL Greenland#41,346△35 rec.1 in 431.3KNielsen28

Roughly 222K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 26). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English53K82%
  • 3.1K5%
  • Welsh2.4K4%
  • Spanish1.9K3%
  • Portuguese4811%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English53,27882%
3,1065%
Welsh2,3544%
Spanish1,8533%
Portuguese4811%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Newson is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname86 records spelled Newson4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ньюсон

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Newson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • 1. variant of Newsome. 2. patronymic from New 1.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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●

1850190019502000Percy Newson, b. 1874Elizabeth Newson, b. 1929George Newson, b. 1932Linda Newson, b. 1946Lloyd Newson, b. 1957Mark Newson, b. 1960Marc Newson, b. 1963Warren Newson, b. 1964Kendall Newson, b. 1980Jared Newson, b. 1984

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Newson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.7K#7,128
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.4K#7,377
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.3K#7,159
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202228—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—28#99,072
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—25#44,307
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14#50,438
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20076#74,483
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#109,066

Reference works 4

  • 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
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Newson?
We estimate roughly 513 thousand people bear Newson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Newson have the most bearers?
We estimate about 222 thousand people bear Newson in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nielsen.
Where is Newson most common?
Newson is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 people carrying it.
How common is Newson compared with other names?
In Denmark, Newson is the most common surname of 100,227 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Newson mean?
Recorded meaning: Son of someone called New; or different form of Newsome.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Newson” — the most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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