The POULSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,549	8545	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	184	20537	0	4
Change since 1880	+3365	+11992	+N/A	+9
Other Countries
Australia	389	4078	0.002	24
United Kingdom	134	20794	0	3

Top States for POULSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	729	355	0.033	326
California	515	5437	0.002	15
Washington	199	3729	0.003	34
Idaho	190	869	0.015	147
Florida	139	12730	0.001	9
Top States for POULSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	729	355	0.033	326
Idaho	190	869	0.015	147
Wyoming	26	2468	0.005	53
Nevada	76	3121	0.004	38
Alaska	23	4059	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of POULSEN

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 POULSEN 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 POULSEN 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 POULSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	83	2.34
Asian/Pacific	32	0.9
Mixed Race	31	0.87
Black/African American	13	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.25
White (Caucasian)	3,381	95.27

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

Similar names to POULSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POULSEN.

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.