The NELSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,352	5066	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,067	5169	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+5285	+103	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	71	19221	0	4
United Kingdom	33	27267	0	1

Top States for NELSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	673	703	0.014	137
California	611	4669	0.002	18
Washington	459	1575	0.008	78
Nebraska	423	333	0.025	247
Wisconsin	403	1636	0.008	75
Top States for NELSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	423	333	0.025	247
South Dakota	165	415	0.022	219
Minnesota	673	703	0.014	137
North Dakota	83	1002	0.013	129
Iowa	373	849	0.013	127

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

Classification and Origin of NELSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NELSEN 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 NELSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	77	1.21
Mixed Race	59	0.93
Asian/Pacific	40	0.63
Black/African American	28	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	24	0.38
White (Caucasian)	6,124	96.41

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

Similar names to NELSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NELSEN.

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.