The GUNDERSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,688	15835	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	106	30333	0	2
Change since 1880	+1582	+14498	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	38	31770	0	2
United Kingdom	58	25743	0	1

Top States for GUNDERSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	178	7345	0.001	9
California	165	10586	0.000	5
Wisconsin	117	4554	0.002	22
Florida	115	10689	0.001	7
Utah	102	1954	0.005	46
Top States for GUNDERSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	62	828	0.010	99
Utah	102	1954	0.005	46
Idaho	33	3785	0.003	26
Wisconsin	117	4554	0.002	22
Vermont	13	4652	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of GUNDERSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Norway

Language of origin: Norwegian

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	58	3.44
Mixed Race	23	1.36
White (Hispanic)	13	0.77
White (Caucasian)	1,580	93.6
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to GUNDERSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUNDERSEN.

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.