Dyson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Dye; first attested Richard Dysun 1275 RH (Lo)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dajsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dyson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Malawi it is the 40th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
- USUnited States1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
12,017 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, 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)
son of Dye; first attested Richard Dysun 1275 RH (Lo)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dyson 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 | — | 12,017 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Dyson | 405 |
| GB United Kingdom | #733 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Dyson | 235 |
| AU Australia | #969 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Dyson | 157 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Dyson | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Dyson | 29 |
| MW Malawi | #40 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Dyson | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Dyson | 54 |
12,017 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dyson 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.
In English, ‘Son of Dye’.
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 Watson Dysonb. 1868GBEnglish astronomer and Astronomer Royal (1868–1939)
- George Dysonb. 1883GBEnglish composer (1883-1964)
- Freeman Dysonb. 1923UStheoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
- James Dysonb. 1947GBBritish inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)
- Ronnie Dysonb. 1950USAmerican singer and actor (1950-1990)
- Esther Dysonb. 1951USSwiss-American journalist
- George Dysonb. 1953USAmerican historian (born 1953)
- Jeremy Dysonb. 1966GBBritish screenwriter
- Jarrod Dysonb. 1984USAmerican baseball player
- Jerome Dysonb. 1987USAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
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 40 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,869 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Dyson mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Dye; first attested Richard Dysun 1275 RH (Lo) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How common is the name Dyson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,017 people named Dyson in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Dyson compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Dyson is the 40th most common surname of 6,972 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Dyson?
- A machine transcription gives /dajsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dyson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Dyson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dyson.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dysonThe 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, “Dyson” — the 40th most common surname in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.