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The MICHELSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,210 20413 0 4
United States (1880 census) 69 40480 0 1
Change since 1880 +1141 +20067 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 59 22299 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MICHELSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 166 13050 0.000 5
Illinois 93 12367 0.001 7
Washington 90 7041 0.002 15
New York 86 18670 0.000 5
Florida 66 21522 0.000 4
Top States for MICHELSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 53 4250 0.002 24
North Dakota 13 7559 0.002 20
Vermont 10 7394 0.002 16
Washington 90 7041 0.002 15
Nevada 25 7959 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of MICHELSEN

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

Ethnic distribution of MICHELSEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 28 2.31
Asian/Pacific 16 1.32
Mixed Race 15 1.24
White (Caucasian) 1,146 94.71
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of MICHELSEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MICHELSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MICHELSEN.

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 MICHELSEN

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