The JOHNSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,381	4439	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	2,834	2160	0.006	57
Change since 1880	+4547	-2279	-0.003	-30
Other Countries
Australia	211	7161	0.001	13
United Kingdom	163	18524	0	4

Top States for JOHNSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	832	3622	0.002	25
Illinois	611	2121	0.005	49
New York	554	3504	0.003	29
Washington	544	1327	0.009	92
Minnesota	422	1350	0.009	86
Top States for JOHNSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	211	870	0.012	123
South Dakota	74	1357	0.010	98
Washington	544	1327	0.009	92
Minnesota	422	1350	0.009	86
North Dakota	53	1879	0.008	83

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

Classification and Origin of JOHNSEN

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 JOHNSEN 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 JOHNSEN 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 JOHNSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	149	2.02
White (Hispanic)	97	1.31
Mixed Race	82	1.11
Asian/Pacific	54	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	43	0.58
White (Caucasian)	6,956	94.24

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

Similar names to JOHNSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOHNSEN.

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.