Mortensen

Mortensen is the 3,181st most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,076 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,076
Rank: 3,181st
How common: 1 in 27,000
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Danish, Norwegian

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen (born 1958)American actor
Dale T. Mortensen (1939–2014)American economist
Stan Mortensen (1921–1991)English footballer and manager
Christian Mortensen (1882–1998)Danish supercentenarian and second-longest-lived man
Casper Ulrich Mortensen (born 1989)Danish handball player
Leif Mortensen (born 1946)Danish road bicycle racer, born 1946
Karin Mortensen (born 1977)Danish handball player
Carlos Mortensen (born 1972)Spanish poker player

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

Surnames like Mortensen

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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.