Andersen

36,548 people in the United States were counted with the surname Andersen in the 2020 census, making it the 936th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,178.

By the numbers

People: 36,548
Rank: 936th
How common: 1 in 8,178
Per 100,000: 12.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Danish, from a patronymic

From Danish or Norwegian Andersen, patronymic from Anders +.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Andersen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)Danish writer and poet
Anja Andersen (born 1969)Danish handball player
Lale Andersen (1905–1972)German singer and actress
Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954)Danish writer
Joachim Andersen (born 1996)Danish association football player
Stephan Andersen (born 1981)Danish footballer
David Andersen (born 1980)Australian basketball player
Chris Andersen (born 1978)American basketball player

People named Andersen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Andersen

Also a first name

Andersen has been given to 1,284 American babies as a first name since 1988, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.