The MORTENSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,116	7457	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	386	11810	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+3730	+4353	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	19	54114	0	1
United Kingdom	30	27479	0	1

Top States for MORTENSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	841	519	0.017	171
California	336	8008	0.001	10
Wisconsin	306	2304	0.006	57
Washington	272	2729	0.005	46
Utah	221	1387	0.010	99
Top States for MORTENSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	841	519	0.017	171
North Dakota	88	928	0.014	137
Utah	221	1387	0.010	99
South Dakota	65	1672	0.009	86
Iowa	189	1975	0.006	65

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

Classification and Origin of MORTENSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	70	1.7
Native American/Alaskan	55	1.34
Mixed Race	45	1.09
Asian/Pacific	27	0.66
Black/African American	11	0.27
White (Caucasian)	3,908	94.95

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

Similar names to MORTENSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MORTENSON.

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.