The OPDAHL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	613	34856	0	2
United States (1880 census)	36	58522	0	1
Change since 1880	+577	+23666	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	4	33481	0	0

Top States for OPDAHL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	194	3297	0.004	39
North Dakota	104	729	0.016	162
California	49	41923	0.000	1
Washington	34	19451	0.001	6
Wisconsin	28	28763	0.001	5
Top States for OPDAHL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	104	729	0.016	162
Minnesota	194	3297	0.004	39
South Dakota	18	7347	0.002	24
Idaho	17	10095	0.001	13
Iowa	27	15617	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of OPDAHL

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	595	97.06
White (Hispanic)	8	1.31
Mixed Race	6	0.98
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to OPDAHL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OPDAHL.

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.