How common is the surname Claussen?

3,457 people in the United States had the surname Claussen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,310 Americans. It ranked 9,405th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Claussen?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Claussen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Claussen getting more or less common?

About as common. 3,456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,457 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Claussen

A surname, carried by 3,457 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Claussen is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,457 people named Claussen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,310 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,456.

#9,405

rank among US surnames

3,457

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #8,757)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,397	Elia	3,460	89,233
#9,399	Edinger	3,459	89,259
#9,403	Samayoa	3,458	89,284
#9,405	Claussen	3,457	89,310
#9,407	Alverson	3,456	89,336
#9,412	Johannes	3,455	89,362

Who is named Claussen

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

95% of people named Claussen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Claussen

Claussen has the Soundex code C425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C425.

Questions

How common is the surname Claussen?: 3,457 people in the United States had the surname Claussen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,310 Americans. It ranked 9,405th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Claussen?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Claussen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Claussen getting more or less common?: About as common. 3,456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,457 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.