Knudsen

9,117 people in the United States were counted with the surname Knudsen in the 2020 census, making it the 3,801st most common in the country. That is about one person in 32,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,117
Rank: 3,801st
How common: 1 in 32,800
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Danish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Knudsen

Jonas Knudsen (born 1992)Danish association football player
Erik Knudsen (born 1988)Canadian actor
Gunnar Knudsen (1848–1928)11th Prime Minister of Norway
Martin Knudsen (1871–1949)Danish physicist
Knut Knudsen (born 1950)Norwegian racing cyclist
Knud Knudsen (1812–1895)Norwegian linguist and philologist
Peggy Knudsen (1923–1980)American actress
Michael V. Knudsen (born 1978)Danish handball player

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

Surnames like Knudsen

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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.