Paulsen

10,822 people in the United States were counted with the surname Paulsen in the 2020 census, making it the 3,258th most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,600.

By the numbers

People: 10,822
Rank: 3,258th
How common: 1 in 27,600
Per 100,000: 3.6

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Paulsen

Rob Paulsen (born 1956)American voice actor and voice director
Axel Paulsen (1855–1938)Norwegian figure skater and speed skater
Louis Paulsen (1833–1891)German chess player
Friedrich Paulsen (1846–1908)German philosopher and educator
Marit Paulsen (1939–2022)Norwegian-born Swedish politician
Alex Paulsen (born 2002)New Zealand association football player
Gary Paulsen (1939–2021)American writer
Albert Paulsen (1925–2004)Ecuadorian-American film and television actor

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

Surnames like Paulsen

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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.