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The PEDERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,030 2366 0.005 52
United States (1880 census) 1,702 3445 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +12328 +1079 +0.002 +18
Other Countries
Australia 106 13589 0.001 6
United Kingdom 131 21097 0 3
Top States for PEDERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 3,606 66 0.073 733
Wisconsin 1,331 314 0.025 248
Washington 1,163 515 0.020 197
California 951 3001 0.003 28
Texas 630 3317 0.003 30
Top States for PEDERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 608 41 0.095 947
Minnesota 3,606 66 0.073 733
South Dakota 484 78 0.064 641
Montana 228 336 0.025 253
Wisconsin 1,331 314 0.025 248

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

Classification and Origin of PEDERSON

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 PEDERSON 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 PEDERSON 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 PEDERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 182 1.3
White (Hispanic) 160 1.14
Native American/Alaskan 105 0.75
Asian/Pacific 70 0.5
Black/African American 32 0.23
White (Caucasian) 13,481 96.09

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

Meaning of PEDERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEDERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEDERSON.

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 PEDERSON

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