Larsen

At the 2020 census, 55,235 Americans bore the surname Larsen — 593rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,411.

By the numbers

People: 55,235
Rank: 593rd
How common: 1 in 5,411
Per 100,000: 18.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Norwegian, from a patronymic

From Danish and Norwegian Larsen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Larsen

Bent Larsen (1935–2010)Danish chess grandmaster and author
Marit Larsen (born 1983)Norwegian singer and songwriter
Jørgen Strand Larsen (born 2000)Norwegian footballer
Jens Stryger Larsen (born 1991)Danish footballer
Jacob Bruun Larsen (born 1998)Danish footballer
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)American novelist, librarian, nurse
Søren Larsen (born 1981)Danish footballer
Carl Anton Larsen (1860–1924)Norwegian explorer and whaler

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

Surnames like Larsen

Also a first name

Larsen has been given to 726 American babies as a first name since 1956, peaking in 2000. 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.