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The CLASSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,851 14715 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 229 17440 0 5
Change since 1880 +1622 +2725 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 15 64489 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CLASSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 182 1050 0.011 106
Oregon 156 2830 0.005 46
California 129 18548 0.000 4
Kansas 120 2779 0.004 45
Minnesota 111 6744 0.002 23
Top States for CLASSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 182 1050 0.011 106
Oregon 156 2830 0.005 46
Kansas 120 2779 0.004 45
South Dakota 18 7565 0.002 24
Minnesota 111 6744 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of CLASSEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CLASSEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of CLASSEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 151 8.16
Mixed Race 19 1.03
Asian/Pacific 9 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.49
Black/African American 8 0.43
White (Caucasian) 1,655 89.41

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

CLASSEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CLASSEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CLASSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLASSEN.

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 CLASSEN

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