The surname Olesen
A Danish patronymic surname, carried by 1,988 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex O425
Origin
Danish origin
Borrowed from Danish Olesen, patronymic from Ole + -sen.
Olesen is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
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 1,988 people named Olesen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,305 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,920.
Who is named Olesen
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Olesen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Olesen has the Soundex code O425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O425.
Other Danish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Olesen come from?
- Borrowed from Danish Olesen, patronymic from Ole + -sen.
- How common is the surname Olesen?
- 1,988 people in the United States had the surname Olesen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,305 Americans. It ranked 14,881st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Olesen?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Olesen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Olesen?
- Olesen is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Olesen getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,920 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,988 in 2010, up 3.5%.