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    The surname Johannsen

    A surname, carried by 2,604 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex J525

    Johannsen: #11,993 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Johannsen #11,993, 2,604 people Johannsen: #11,993 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Johannsen #11,993, 2,604 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Johannsen is more common than 92.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,604 people named Johannsen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 118,566 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,482.

    #11,993
    rank among US surnames
    2,604
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #11,601)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,984Laclair2,606118,475
    #11,988Burchard2,605118,520
    #11,993Chubb2,604118,566
    #11,998Byram2,603118,611

    Who is named Johannsen

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

    94% of people named Johannsen identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • 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 Johannsen

    Johannsen has the Soundex code J525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J525.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Johannsen?
    2,604 people in the United States had the surname Johannsen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,566 Americans. It ranked 11,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Johannsen?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Johannsen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Johannsen getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,482 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,604 in 2010, up 4.9%.