Poulsen

3,891 people in the United States were counted with the surname Poulsen in the 2020 census, making it the 8,145th most common in the country. That is about one person in 76,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,891
Rank: 8,145th
How common: 1 in 76,800
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Poulsen

Yussuf Poulsen (born 1994)Danish association football player
Christian Poulsen (born 1980)Danish association football player
Simon Poulsen (born 1984)Danish association football player
Jakob Poulsen (born 1983)Danish association football player
Valdemar Poulsen (1869–1942)Danish engineer
Kevin Poulsen (born 1965)hacking experience with Kevin Lee Poulsen
Troels Lund Poulsen (born 1976)Danish politician
Søren Pape Poulsen (1971–2024)Danish politician

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

Surnames like Poulsen

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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.