The HANSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	133,474	193	0.049	495
United States (1880 census)	9,248	647	0.018	185
Change since 1880	+124226	+454	+0.031	+310
Other Countries
Australia	6,519	200	0.04	399
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HANSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	15,133	158	0.045	447
Utah	8,884	8	0.398	3,978
Wisconsin	8,765	20	0.163	1,634
Minnesota	8,662	21	0.176	1,761
Washington	8,387	36	0.142	1,423
Top States for HANSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	8,884	8	0.398	3,978
Idaho	3,190	16	0.247	2,465
South Dakota	1,783	14	0.236	2,362
Nebraska	3,716	11	0.217	2,171
Iowa	5,954	15	0.203	2,035

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

Classification and Origin of HANSEN

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 HANSEN 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 HANSEN 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 HANSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	801	0.6
Native American/Alaskan	654	0.49
Black/African American	534	0.4
White (Caucasian)	127,655	95.64
White (Hispanic)	2,162	1.62
Mixed Race	1,655	1.24

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

Similar names to HANSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANSEN.

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.