The ELSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	878	26191	0	3
United States (1880 census)	119	28020	0	2
Change since 1880	+759	+1829	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	17	58542	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ELSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	165	3761	0.003	31
Minnesota	114	5086	0.002	23
South Dakota	54	1564	0.007	72
Kansas	48	5597	0.002	18
Ohio	48	20963	0.000	4
Top States for ELSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	54	1564	0.007	72
Wisconsin	165	3761	0.003	31
Minnesota	114	5086	0.002	23
Kansas	48	5597	0.002	18
Nebraska	22	10076	0.001	13

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

Classification and Origin of ELSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	848	96.58
White (Hispanic)	15	1.71
Mixed Race	10	1.14
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to ELSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELSEN.

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.