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The PEDERSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,510 1683 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 381 11946 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +19129 +10263 +0.006 +64
Other Countries
Australia 1,282 1290 0.008 78
United Kingdom 696 6958 0.002 15
Top States for PEDERSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,390 1318 0.007 71
Washington 1,450 411 0.025 246
Minnesota 1,199 336 0.024 244
New York 1,163 1501 0.006 61
Illinois 1,001 1201 0.008 81
Top States for PEDERSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 581 209 0.034 340
Iowa 899 271 0.031 307
North Dakota 196 288 0.031 305
South Dakota 219 264 0.029 290
Alaska 178 362 0.028 284

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

Classification and Origin of PEDERSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 293 1.5
Mixed Race 267 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 127 0.65
Asian/Pacific 113 0.58
Black/African American 49 0.25
White (Caucasian) 18,661 95.65

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

Meaning of PEDERSEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEDERSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEDERSEN.

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 PEDERSEN

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