Rasmussen
Rasmussen is the 976th most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,292 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,469.
By the numbers
- People
- 35,292
- Rank
- 976th
- How common
- 1 in 8,469
- Per 100,000
- 11.8
Where the name comes from
Origin Danish, from a patronymic
From Danish and Norwegian Rasmussen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Rasmussen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Rasmussen
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 1953)former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO
- Lars Løkke Rasmussen (born 1964)25th Prime Minister of Denmark
- Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (born 1943)Prime Minister of Denmark from 1993 to 2001
- Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933)Danish explorer and anthropologist
- Rasmussen (born 1985)Danish singer
- Michael Rasmussen (born 1974)Danish cyclist, born 1974
- Troels Rasmussen (born 1961)Danish footballer
- Flemming Rasmussen (born 1958)Danish record producer
People named Rasmussen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Rasmussen
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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.