Madsen

At the 2020 census, 17,190 Americans bore the surname Madsen — 2,054th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,400.

By the numbers

People: 17,190
Rank: 2,054th
How common: 1 in 17,400
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Madsen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Madsen

Michael Madsen (1957–2025)American actor
Virginia Madsen (born 1961)American actress
Peter Madsen (born 1971)Danish convicted murderer, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed engineer
Peter Madsen (born 1978)Danish footballer
Mark Madsen (born 1984)Danish martial artist and wrestler
Ole Madsen (1934–2006)Danish footballer
Frederik Madsen (born 1998)Danish bicycle racer, born 1998
Jens-Erik Madsen (born 1981)Danish racing cyclist, born 1981

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

Surnames like Madsen

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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.