Kersten

3,061 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kersten in the 2020 census, making it the 10,040th most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,061
Rank: 10,040th
How common: 1 in 97,600
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Kersten

Felix Kersten (1898–1960)Finnish masseur for Heinrich Himmler
Dagmar Kersten (born 1970)East German gymnast
Peter Kersten (born 1958)East German rower

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

Surnames like Kersten

Also a first name

Kersten has been given to 918 American babies as a first name since 1963, peaking in 1997. 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.