The OLESON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,807	8034	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	12,706	462	0.025	254
Change since 1880	-8899	-7572	-0.024	-240
Other Countries
Australia	10	85030	0	1
United Kingdom	5	32896	0	0

Top States for OLESON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	502	1344	0.009	94
California	377	7590	0.001	11
Iowa	320	1123	0.011	109
Illinois	250	5487	0.002	20
Minnesota	240	2832	0.005	49
Top States for OLESON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	122	692	0.016	162
Iowa	320	1123	0.011	109
Wyoming	47	1317	0.010	95
Wisconsin	502	1344	0.009	94
Alaska	44	2078	0.007	70

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

Classification and Origin of OLESON

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

Ethnic distribution of OLESON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	62	1.63
Mixed Race	46	1.21
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.74
Asian/Pacific	24	0.63
Black/African American	7	0.18
White (Caucasian)	3,640	95.61

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

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

Similar names to OLESON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLESON.

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.