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

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 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.

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.