Christensen

74,664 people in the United States were counted with the surname Christensen in the 2020 census, making it the 435th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,003.

By the numbers

People: 74,664
Rank: 435th
How common: 1 in 4,003
Per 100,000: 25.0

Where the name comes from

and Norwegian Christensen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Christensen

Hayden Christensen (born 1981)Canadian actor
Andreas Christensen (born 1996)Danish association football player
Helena Christensen (born 1968)Danish model and photographer
Inger Christensen (1935–2009)poet, novelist, essayist, editor
Erika Christensen (born 1982)American actress
Lars Saabye Christensen (born 1953)Danish and Norwegian author writing in Norwegian
Oliver Christensen (born 1999)Danish association football player
Benjamin Christensen (1879–1959)Danish actor

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

Surnames like Christensen

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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.