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The GUNDERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,583 2442 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 2,341 2599 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +11242 +157 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 53 24263 0 3
United Kingdom 72 25135 0 2
Top States for GUNDERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 2,666 114 0.054 542
Wisconsin 1,907 227 0.036 356
California 1,104 2898 0.003 33
Washington 1,019 676 0.017 173
Illinois 591 2205 0.005 48
Top States for GUNDERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 410 93 0.064 638
Minnesota 2,666 114 0.054 542
South Dakota 333 153 0.044 441
Wisconsin 1,907 227 0.036 356
Montana 212 428 0.023 235

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

Classification and Origin of GUNDERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 200 1.47
Mixed Race 156 1.15
Asian/Pacific 96 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 95 0.7
Black/African American 37 0.27
White (Caucasian) 13,000 95.71

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

Meaning of GUNDERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to GUNDERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUNDERSON.

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 GUNDERSON

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