How common is the surname Torgerson?

4,923 people in the United States had the surname Torgerson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,715 Americans. It ranked 6,843rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Torgerson getting more or less common?

More common. 4,545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,923 in 2010, up 8.3%.

The surname Torgerson

A surname, carried by 4,923 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex T626

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Torgerson is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

Americanized form of Norwegian Torgersen or Sweden/Swedish: Torgerson.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,923 people named Torgerson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,715 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,545.

#6,843

rank among US surnames

4,923

people in 2010

1.7

per 100,000 Americans

+8.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,822)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,835	Fleury	4,934	62,575
#6,836	Habib	4,932	62,600
#6,837	Hallock	4,930	62,626
#6,838	Fast	4,929	62,639
#6,839	Takahashi	4,928	62,651
#6,840	Hovey	4,927	62,664
#6,842	Engelhardt	4,924	62,702

Who is named Torgerson

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

95% of people named Torgerson identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Torgeson

Surnames that sound like Torgerson

Trigueros

Torgerson has the Soundex code T626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T626.

Questions

Where does the surname Torgerson come from?: Americanized form of Norwegian Torgersen or Sweden/Swedish: Torgerson.
How common is the surname Torgerson?: 4,923 people in the United States had the surname Torgerson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,715 Americans. It ranked 6,843rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Torgerson?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Torgerson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
Is the surname Torgerson getting more or less common?: More common. 4,545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,923 in 2010, up 8.3%.
What are other spellings of Torgerson?: Torgeson.