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The FOSSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 666 32529 0 2
United States (1880 census) 37 57871 0 1
Change since 1880 +629 +25342 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 4 180449 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FOSSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 183 3143 0.004 37
North Dakota 75 933 0.012 117
California 60 31637 0.000 2
Wisconsin 42 18021 0.001 8
Arizona 40 11643 0.001 8
Top States for FOSSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 75 933 0.012 117
Montana 38 2896 0.004 42
Wyoming 20 2835 0.004 41
Minnesota 183 3143 0.004 37
South Dakota 12 9223 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of FOSSEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FOSSEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of FOSSEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 644 96.7
White (Hispanic) 10 1.5
Mixed Race 6 0.9
Asian/Pacific 5 0.75
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 FOSSEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

FOSSEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FOSSEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to FOSSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOSSEN.

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 FOSSEN

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