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The KARSTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,952 14137 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 205 18973 0 4
Change since 1880 +1747 +4836 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 37 32691 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KARSTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 397 3030 0.004 40
Minnesota 202 3372 0.004 41
Illinois 153 8776 0.001 12
Wisconsin 147 5731 0.003 27
California 123 19543 0.000 4
Top States for KARSTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 202 3372 0.004 41
Michigan 397 3030 0.004 40
Iowa 107 4088 0.004 37
Wisconsin 147 5731 0.003 27
South Dakota 14 9337 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of KARSTEN

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

Ethnic distribution of KARSTEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 16 0.82
Mixed Race 12 0.61
Asian/Pacific 8 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.31
Black/African American 5 0.26
White (Caucasian) 1,905 97.59

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

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

Meaning of KARSTEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to KARSTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KARSTEN.

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 KARSTEN

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