Jorgensen
20,571 people in the United States were counted with the surname Jorgensen in the 2020 census, making it the 1,707th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,500.
By the numbers
- People
- 20,571
- Rank
- 1,707th
- How common
- 1 in 14,500
- Per 100,000
- 6.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Danish
From Danish and Norwegian (Jørgensen) and north German (Jörgensen) surname, patronymic from Jørgen, Jörgen +. Compare George, Jergensen, Jergenson, Jorgenson, Yorgensen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Jorgensen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Jorgensen
- Mathias Jørgensen (born 1990)Danish association football player
- Anker Jørgensen (1922–2016)Danish politician
- Jo Jorgensen (born 1957)American politician, 2020 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
- Nicolai Jørgensen (born 1991)Danish association football player
- Martin Jørgensen (born 1975)Danish footballer
- Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989)first American to become widely known for having sex reassignment surgery
- Filip Jörgensen (born 2002)Danish association football player
- Gwen Jorgensen (born 1986)American triathlete
People named Jorgensen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Jorgensen
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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.