Mortenson

Mortenson is the 7,842nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,057 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,057
Rank: 7,842nd
How common: 1 in 73,700
Per 100,000: 1.4

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 Mortenson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mortenson

Greg Mortenson (born 1957)American mountaineer and humanitarian

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

Surnames like Mortenson

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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.