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The MICHELSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,228 9283 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 70 40089 0 1
Change since 1880 +3158 +30806 +N/A +11
Other Countries
Australia 83 16779 0.001 5
United Kingdom 136 20654 0 3
Top States for MICHELSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 499 5350 0.001 15
Florida 242 7481 0.002 15
New York 242 7561 0.001 13
Massachusetts 210 3887 0.003 33
Minnesota 150 4398 0.003 30
Top States for MICHELSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 44 2245 0.007 69
Massachusetts 210 3887 0.003 33
Minnesota 150 4398 0.003 30
Vermont 17 4924 0.003 28
Connecticut 94 4606 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of MICHELSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MICHELSON 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 MICHELSON 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 MICHELSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 74 2.29
Mixed Race 54 1.67
Black/African American 18 0.56
White (Caucasian) 3,065 94.95
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MICHELSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to MICHELSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MICHELSON.

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 MICHELSON

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