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The CARLSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 120,124 225 0.045 445
United States (1880 census) 6,092 1004 0.012 122
Change since 1880 +114032 +779 +0.033 +323
Other Countries
Australia 1,171 1410 0.007 72
United Kingdom 548 8314 0.001 12
Top States for CARLSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 17,146 9 0.349 3,485
California 10,740 249 0.032 317
Illinois 8,750 74 0.070 705
Washington 6,644 49 0.113 1,127
Michigan 5,654 119 0.057 569
Top States for CARLSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 17,146 9 0.349 3,485
North Dakota 1,238 16 0.193 1,928
South Dakota 1,302 19 0.172 1,725
Nebraska 2,024 30 0.118 1,183
Washington 6,644 49 0.113 1,127

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CARLSON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARLSON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARLSON in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARLSON by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARLSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARLSON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CARLSON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CARLSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 649 0.54
Native American/Alaskan 601 0.5
Black/African American 480 0.4
White (Caucasian) 115,583 96.22
Mixed Race 1,237 1.03
White (Hispanic) 1,586 1.32

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CARLSON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CARLSON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CARLSON.

Similar names to CARLSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLSON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CARLSON

The following words are slight variants of CARLSON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.