The CHRISTENSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,530	3139	0.004	39
United States (1880 census)	1,860	3179	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+8670	+40	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	70	19396	0	4
United Kingdom	43	26538	0	1

Top States for CHRISTENSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	2,197	144	0.045	447
Wisconsin	1,108	436	0.021	207
California	812	3628	0.002	24
Washington	634	1099	0.011	108
Michigan	366	3184	0.004	37
Top States for CHRISTENSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	2,197	144	0.045	447
North Dakota	176	345	0.027	274
South Dakota	199	320	0.026	264
Wisconsin	1,108	436	0.021	207
Utah	276	1064	0.012	124

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

Classification and Origin of CHRISTENSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHRISTENSON 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 CHRISTENSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	174	1.65
Mixed Race	120	1.14
Native American/Alaskan	83	0.79
Asian/Pacific	66	0.63
Black/African American	53	0.5
White (Caucasian)	10,034	95.29

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

Similar names to CHRISTENSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHRISTENSON.

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.