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The ERIKSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,859 10327 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 123 27286 0 2
Change since 1880 +2736 +16959 +N/A +9
Other Countries
Australia 142 10395 0.001 9
United Kingdom 131 21148 0 3
Top States for ERIKSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 429 6186 0.001 13
Washington 231 3062 0.004 39
Florida 205 8686 0.001 13
New York 197 9222 0.001 10
Illinois 127 9809 0.001 10
Top States for ERIKSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 82 2668 0.005 48
Alaska 26 3241 0.004 41
Washington 231 3062 0.004 39
Delaware 29 4533 0.004 37
Vermont 22 4069 0.004 36

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of ERIKSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 52 1.82
Mixed Race 43 1.5
Asian/Pacific 21 0.73
White (Caucasian) 2,734 95.63
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ERIKSEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ERIKSEN.

Similar names to ERIKSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ERIKSEN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ERIKSEN

The following words are slight variants of ERIKSEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.