Johansen

At the 2020 census, 9,524 Americans bore the surname Johansen — 3,635th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,524
Rank: 3,635th
How common: 1 in 31,400
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin North Germanic languages, Norwegian, Danish

From gmq Johansen (Danish Johansen and Norwegian Johansen), patronymic from Johan +.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Johansen

Lars-Emil Johansen (born 1946)Prime Minister of Greenland
Stefan Johansen (born 1991)Norwegian association football player
Hjalmar Johansen (1867–1913)Norwegian explorer
Kari Mette Johansen (born 1979)handball player
Henry Johansen (1904–1988)Norwegian footballer and manager
David Johansen (1950–2025)American singer
Viggo Johansen (1851–1935)Danish painter
Jon Lech Johansen (born 1983)Norwegian programmer, one of the three DeCSS developers

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

Surnames like Johansen

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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.