Eklund

3,877 people in the United States were counted with the surname Eklund in the 2020 census, making it the 8,184th most common in the country. That is about one person in 77,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,877
Rank: 8,184th
How common: 1 in 77,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Swedish

Borrowed from Swedish Eklund, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ek (“oak”) and lund (“grove”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Eklund

Sigvard Arne Eklund (1911–2000)Swedish politician
Hans Eklund (born 1969)Swedish association football player and manager
Jakob Eklund (born 1962)Swedish actor
Michael Eklund (born 1972)Canadian actor
Per-Erik Eklund (born 1963)Swedish ice hockey player
Per Eklund (born 1946)Swedish rally driver
Ernst Eklund (1882–1971)Swedish actor and director

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

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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.