Pedersen

Pedersen is the 1,783rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,674 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,200.

By the numbers

People: 19,674
Rank: 1,783rd
How common: 1 in 15,200
Per 100,000: 6.6

Where the name comes from

As a Danish and Norwegian surname, borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Pedersen. Compare Petersen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Pedersen

Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989)American organic chemist
Tore Pedersen (born 1969)Norwegian association football player
Morten Gamst Pedersen (born 1981)Norwegian footballer
Marcus Holmgren Pedersen (born 2000)Norwegian footballer
Holger Pedersen (1867–1953)Danish linguist
Mads Pedersen (born 1995)Danish cyclist, born 1995
Nicklas Pedersen (born 1987)Danish footballer
Sverre Lunde Pedersen (born 1992)Norwegian speed skater

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

Surnames like Pedersen

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.