The MADSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,425	2024	0.006	61
United States (1880 census)	617	8148	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+15808	+6124	+0.005	+49
Other Countries
Australia	595	2719	0.004	36
United Kingdom	322	12157	0.001	7

Top States for MADSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,967	1635	0.006	58
Utah	1,898	88	0.085	850
Minnesota	1,295	310	0.026	263
Washington	840	817	0.014	143
Iowa	778	326	0.027	266
Top States for MADSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	1,898	88	0.085	850
South Dakota	298	170	0.039	395
Idaho	432	324	0.033	334
Iowa	778	326	0.027	266
Minnesota	1,295	310	0.026	263

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

Classification and Origin of MADSEN

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 MADSEN 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 MADSEN 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 MADSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	246	1.5
Mixed Race	176	1.07
Asian/Pacific	97	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	72	0.44
Black/African American	66	0.4
White (Caucasian)	15,766	95.99

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

Similar names to MADSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MADSEN.

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.