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The LORENZEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,658 8326 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 278 15136 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +3380 +6810 0 +8
Other Countries
Australia 47 26767 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LORENZEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 414 735 0.014 141
California 411 6568 0.001 12
Minnesota 229 2717 0.005 47
Illinois 178 7136 0.001 14
Ohio 177 7461 0.002 16
Top States for LORENZEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 414 735 0.014 141
South Dakota 71 1390 0.009 94
Nebraska 147 1304 0.009 86
Wyoming 26 2441 0.005 53
Minnesota 229 2717 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of LORENZEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LORENZEN 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.

Ethnic distribution of LORENZEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 58 1.59
Mixed Race 35 0.96
Asian/Pacific 20 0.55
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.33
Black/African American 5 0.14
White (Caucasian) 3,528 96.45

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

Meaning of LORENZEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LORENZEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LORENZEN.

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 LORENZEN

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