Hansen

135,050 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hansen in the 2020 census, making it the 210th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,213.

By the numbers

People: 135,050
Rank: 210th
How common: 1 in 2,213
Per 100,000: 45.2

Where the name comes from

Origin North Germanic languages

From gmq (Danish Hansen and Norwegian Hansen), patronymic from Hans +.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hansen

Lars Peter Hansen (born 1952)American economist
Mikkel Hansen (born 1987)Danish handball player
Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912)Norwegian physician
Chris Hansen (born 1959)American television journalist
Alan Hansen (born 1955)Scottish association football player
Jeremy Hansen (born 1976)Canadian astronaut
Caroline Graham Hansen (born 1995)Norwegian footballer
Kai Hansen (born 1963)German guitarist and singer

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

Surnames like Hansen

Also a first name

Hansen has been given to 887 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2016. 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.