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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

'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.

Meaning of PAULSEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PAULSEN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PAULSEN

The following words are slight variants of PAULSEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.