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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

'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.

Meaning of MORTENSON in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MORTENSON

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