Lidson Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Lidson Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Zimbabwe | 6 | 1:2,573,040 | 106,478 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 1:5,021,868 | 210,693 |
Lidson (546) may also be a first name.
Lidson Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lidson Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lidson is more frequently found in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Lidson click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lidson? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lidson is the 1,465,390th most common last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 50,258,937 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Lidson live; 94 percent live in Southern Africa and 94 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 360,559th most frequently held first name in the world, held by 546 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Malawi, where it is borne by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Without taking into account Malawi this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 4 percent reside and Sweden, where 3 percent reside.
Lidson Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Lidson has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Lidson surname declined 90 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Lidson
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