How common is the surname Knudson?

7,278 people in the United States had the surname Knudson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,422 Americans. It ranked 4,841st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Knudson?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Knudson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Knudson getting more or less common?

More common. 7,196 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,278 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Knudson

A surname, carried by 7,278 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Knudson is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,278 people named Knudson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,422 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,196.

#4,841

rank among US surnames

7,278

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #4,532)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,833	Nelms	7,303	42,277
#4,834	Lindgren	7,300	42,294
#4,835	Tibbs	7,294	42,329
#4,836	Bare	7,291	42,346
#4,837	Das	7,289	42,358
#4,838	Lowman	7,284	42,387
#4,839	McKeon	7,283	42,393

Who is named Knudson

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

95% of people named Knudson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Knudson

Knudson has the Soundex code K532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K532.

Questions

How common is the surname Knudson?: 7,278 people in the United States had the surname Knudson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,422 Americans. It ranked 4,841st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Knudson?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Knudson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Knudson getting more or less common?: More common. 7,196 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,278 in 2010, up 1.1%.