Jorgenson

At the 2020 census, 6,742 Americans bore the surname Jorgenson — 5,042nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,742
Rank: 5,042nd
How common: 1 in 44,300
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Americanized from Danish or Norwegian Jørgensen, north German Jörgensen; see Jorgensen. Less commonly a form of Swedish Jörgensson, Jörgenson, of the same meaning. Compare also Jergensen, Jergenson.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jorgenson

Matteo Jorgenson (born 1999)American cyclist
Dale W. Jorgenson (1933–2022)American economist

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

Surnames like Jorgenson

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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.