The ANDERSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	33,508	954	0.012	124
United States (1880 census)	3,663	1673	0.007	73
Change since 1880	+29845	+719	+0.005	+51
Other Countries
Australia	2,270	703	0.014	139
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ANDERSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,183	726	0.012	123
Washington	1,840	308	0.031	312
Minnesota	1,836	187	0.037	373
Utah	1,715	96	0.077	768
Illinois	1,694	660	0.014	136
Top States for ANDERSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	1,715	96	0.077	768
Nebraska	1,265	67	0.074	739
South Dakota	448	90	0.059	594
Iowa	1,619	116	0.055	553
Idaho	667	184	0.052	515

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

Classification and Origin of ANDERSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ANDERSEN 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 ANDERSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	576	1.72
Mixed Race	389	1.16
Asian/Pacific	211	0.63
Black/African American	191	0.57
Native American/Alaskan	137	0.41
White (Caucasian)	32,003	95.51

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

Similar names to ANDERSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ANDERSEN.

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.