The AHRENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,895	3317	0.004	37
United States (1880 census)	1,848	3197	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+8047	-120	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	360	4411	0.002	22
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for AHRENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	748	1639	0.006	60
California	704	4053	0.002	21
Wisconsin	667	836	0.012	124
New York	651	2844	0.003	34
Texas	641	3419	0.003	31
Top States for AHRENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	334	434	0.020	195
Iowa	511	550	0.017	175
Wisconsin	667	836	0.012	124
Minnesota	611	781	0.012	124
Missouri	481	1429	0.009	86

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of AHRENS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the AHRENS 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.

Ethnic distribution of AHRENS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	145	1.47
Mixed Race	111	1.12
Asian/Pacific	47	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	25	0.25
Black/African American	16	0.16
White (Caucasian)	9,551	96.52

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

Similar names to AHRENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AHRENS.

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.