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The KNUDSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,877 3675 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 510 9504 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +8367 +5829 +0.002 +23
Other Countries
Australia 269 5760 0.002 16
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KNUDSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 985 3052 0.003 29
Minnesota 597 810 0.012 121
Florida 497 3950 0.003 31
Washington 455 1536 0.008 77
Utah 403 700 0.018 180
Top States for KNUDSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 403 700 0.018 180
Montana 155 613 0.017 172
Idaho 177 921 0.014 137
Nebraska 232 719 0.014 136
Minnesota 597 810 0.012 121

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

Classification and Origin of KNUDSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KNUDSEN 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 KNUDSEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 148 1.67
Mixed Race 91 1.03
Native American/Alaskan 73 0.82
Asian/Pacific 62 0.7
Black/African American 18 0.2
White (Caucasian) 8,485 95.58

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

Meaning of KNUDSEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to KNUDSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNUDSEN.

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 KNUDSEN

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