The CLAUSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,895	3668	0.003	33
United States (1880 census)	931	5798	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+7964	+2130	+0.001	+14
Other Countries
Australia	268	5788	0.002	16
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for CLAUSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	928	3267	0.003	27
Minnesota	785	569	0.016	160
Iowa	740	356	0.025	253
Wisconsin	577	1047	0.011	108
Illinois	569	2232	0.005	46
Top States for CLAUSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	740	356	0.025	253
Nebraska	380	386	0.022	222
South Dakota	150	459	0.020	199
Minnesota	785	569	0.016	160
Montana	103	1027	0.011	114

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

Classification and Origin of CLAUSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	174	1.96
Mixed Race	98	1.1
Asian/Pacific	50	0.56
Black/African American	41	0.46
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.45
White (Caucasian)	8,492	95.47

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

Similar names to CLAUSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLAUSEN.

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.