How common is the surname Carlsen?

4,343 people in the United States had the surname Carlsen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,090 Americans. It ranked 7,647th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Carlsen?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Carlsen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Carlsen?

Agnete Carlsen, association football player, followed by Kirk Carlsen.

Where is the surname Carlsen most common?

Wikidata records people named Carlsen in Norway and the United States.

Is the surname Carlsen getting more or less common?

More common. 4,258 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,343 in 2010, up 2.0%.

The surname Carlsen

A Danish surname, carried by 4,343 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C642

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carlsen is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

Danish origin

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Carlsen.

One of 50 Danish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,343 people named Carlsen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,090 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,258.

#7,647

rank among US surnames

4,343

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2%

change since 2000 (was #7,224)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,641	Walcott	4,346	71,041
#7,643	Kerby	4,345	71,058
#7,644	Ito	4,344	71,074
#7,647	Carlsen	4,343	71,090
#7,650	McGuinness	4,342	71,107
#7,652	Lent	4,341	71,123

Who is named Carlsen

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

94% of people named Carlsen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Carlsens

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Agnete Carlsen
Association football player, born 1971
Kirk Carlsen
American racing cyclist, born 1987

Notable Carlsens come mostly from Norway (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Carlston

Surnames that sound like Carlsen

Carlsen has the Soundex code C642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C642.

Other Danish surnames

All 50 Danish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Carlsen come from?: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Carlsen.
How common is the surname Carlsen?: 4,343 people in the United States had the surname Carlsen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,090 Americans. It ranked 7,647th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Carlsen?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Carlsen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Carlsen?: Agnete Carlsen, association football player, followed by Kirk Carlsen.
Where is the surname Carlsen most common?: Wikidata records people named Carlsen in Norway and the United States.
Is the surname Carlsen getting more or less common?: More common. 4,258 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,343 in 2010, up 2.0%.
What are other spellings of Carlsen?: Carlston.