The ERIKSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,625	11100	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	1,243	4540	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+1382	-6560	-0.001	-15
Other Countries
Australia	62	21480	0	4
United Kingdom	35	27049	0	1

Top States for ERIKSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	275	9212	0.001	8
Massachusetts	197	4144	0.003	31
Illinois	154	8140	0.001	12
New York	144	12615	0.001	8
Washington	141	4996	0.002	24
Top States for ERIKSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	55	1928	0.007	73
Idaho	45	3883	0.003	35
Massachusetts	197	4144	0.003	31
Nebraska	50	4968	0.003	29
Alaska	18	5027	0.003	29

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

Classification and Origin of ERIKSON

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 ERIKSON 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 ERIKSON 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 ERIKSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	41	1.56
Black/African American	14	0.53
Mixed Race	12	0.46
Asian/Pacific	9	0.34
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.27
White (Caucasian)	2,542	96.84

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

Similar names to ERIKSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ERIKSON.

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.