Eriksen

Eriksen is the 10,465th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,928 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,928
Rank: 10,465th
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Origin Danish, Norwegian

or Norwegian Eriksen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Eriksen

Christian Eriksen (born 1992)Danish association football player
Stein Eriksen (1927–2015)Norwegian alpine skier
Erik Eriksen (1902–1972)Danish politician and Prime Minister of Denmark, 1950–1953
Ine Eriksen Søreide (born 1976)Norwegian politician (Conservative Party)
Edvard Eriksen (1876–1959)Danish sculptor
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962–2024)Norwegian social anthropologist and professor
Beate Eriksen (born 1960)Norwegian director and actor
Nils Eriksen (1911–1975)Norwegian footballer and manager

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

Surnames like Eriksen

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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.