Larson

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Larson, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Garrison
• Fletcher
• Brie
• Nelson
• Ellison

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Larson is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Larsón, Làrson

• Swedish surname25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, Norway

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Larsson, Lärsson, Λάρσον

• Russian surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Ларсон

62 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.

Larson is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Scandinavian; from laurel tree, crowned with laurels; son of Lawrence.

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• Americanized form of Swedish Larsson, Danish and Norwegian Larsen.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A surname transferred from the given name.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Glen, TV producer, writer

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• patronymic from a pet form of Lawrence.

  as a name·Dictionary 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.

• Eric Larsonb. 1905USAmerican animator (1905–1988)
• John B. Larsonb. 1948USUnited States Representative from Connecticut
• Jonathan Larsonb. 1960USAmerican composer and playwright (1960–1996)

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).

54 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Larson?

In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Larson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled larson. After it come Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.

What does the name Larson mean, and where does it come from?

Anglicization of Swedish Larsson and Danish/Norwegian Larsen, both 'son of Lars' (Scandinavian form of Lawrence). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How common is the name Larson?

In the United States, the national register counted 122,587 people named Larson in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.

How common is Larson compared with other names?

In the United States, Larson is the 208th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.