The OLSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	57,357	521	0.021	213
United States (1880 census)	6,231	981	0.012	125
Change since 1880	+51126	+460	+0.009	+88
Other Countries
Australia	3,050	509	0.019	187
United Kingdom	1,560	3627	0.003	34

Top States for OLSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	5,739	513	0.017	169
Utah	4,721	22	0.211	2,114
Washington	4,018	107	0.068	682
New York	3,332	450	0.018	176
Minnesota	3,186	83	0.065	648
Top States for OLSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	4,721	22	0.211	2,114
Idaho	1,122	85	0.087	867
Montana	710	74	0.079	787
Alaska	432	107	0.069	689
Washington	4,018	107	0.068	682

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

Classification and Origin of OLSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	975	1.7
Mixed Race	780	1.36
Native American/Alaskan	419	0.73
Asian/Pacific	367	0.64
Black/African American	161	0.28
White (Caucasian)	54,650	95.28

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

Similar names to OLSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLSEN.

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.