The OLSSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,476	11628	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	153	23325	0	3
Change since 1880	+2323	+11697	+N/A	+6
Other Countries
Australia	593	2733	0.004	36
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for OLSSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	335	7566	0.001	10
Florida	183	9493	0.001	11
Massachusetts	160	4921	0.003	25
Illinois	147	8347	0.001	12
New York	140	12646	0.001	7
Top States for OLSSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	43	3956	0.003	34
New Hampshire	33	4669	0.003	27
Montana	23	5908	0.003	25
Massachusetts	160	4921	0.003	25
Minnesota	106	6527	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of OLSSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	59	2.38
Mixed Race	34	1.37
Asian/Pacific	24	0.97
Black/African American	7	0.28
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.2
White (Caucasian)	2,347	94.79

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

Similar names to OLSSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLSSON.

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.