How common is the surname Amundsen?

1,782 people in the United States had the surname Amundsen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,258 Americans. It ranked 16,203rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Amundsen?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Amundsen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Amundsen getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,857 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,782 in 2010, down 4.0%.

The surname Amundsen

A surname, carried by 1,782 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A553

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Amundsen is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

From Danish and Norwegian Amundsen.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,782 people named Amundsen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,258 Americans. That is down 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,857.

#16,203

rank among US surnames

1,782

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-4%

change since 2000 (was #14,680)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,195	Pincus	1,783	173,161
#16,203	Hallum	1,782	173,258

Who is named Amundsen

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Amundsen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Amundsen

Amundson

Amundsen has the Soundex code A553, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A553.

Questions

Where does the surname Amundsen come from?: From Danish and Norwegian Amundsen.
How common is the surname Amundsen?: 1,782 people in the United States had the surname Amundsen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,258 Americans. It ranked 16,203rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Amundsen?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Amundsen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Amundsen getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,857 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,782 in 2010, down 4.0%.