The PAULSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,121	2979	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	797	6573	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+10324	+3594	+0.002	+25
Other Countries
Australia	312	5025	0.002	19
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PAULSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,310	2378	0.004	39
Iowa	1,122	208	0.038	383
Minnesota	781	566	0.016	159
Illinois	622	2040	0.005	50
Washington	577	1234	0.010	98
Top States for PAULSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	1,122	208	0.038	383
South Dakota	238	239	0.032	315
Nebraska	448	305	0.026	262
Minnesota	781	566	0.016	159
Utah	308	952	0.014	138

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

Classification and Origin of PAULSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Norway

Language of origin: Norwegian

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	158	1.42
Mixed Race	132	1.19
Asian/Pacific	73	0.66
Native American/Alaskan	63	0.57
Black/African American	22	0.2
White (Caucasian)	10,673	95.97

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

Similar names to PAULSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAULSEN.

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.