Find out how popular the last name Fredericksen is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Fredericksen.

Fredericksen, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Fredericksen surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Fredericksen in America

Fredericksen is the 17455th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Fredericksen surname appeared 1,615 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Fredericksen.

We can also compare 2010 data for Fredericksen to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Fredericksen

The surname Fredericksen is of Danish origin, derived from the personal name Frederick, which itself is a compound of the Germanic elements "frid" meaning peace and "ric" meaning power or ruler. The name likely originated in the medieval period, around the 12th or 13th century.

Fredericksen is a patronymic surname, meaning it was originally formed by adding the suffix "-sen" (son of) to the personal name Frederick. This naming convention was common in Scandinavian countries, indicating the person was the son of someone named Frederick.

The earliest recorded instances of the surname Fredericksen can be found in Danish parish records and census documents from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some variations in spelling include Fredericsen, Frederiksen, and Frederiksson.

One notable early bearer of the name was Hans Fredericksen, a Danish sailor and explorer who accompanied Vitus Bering on his expeditions to the Arctic in the early 18th century. Another was Niels Fredericksen (1824-1887), a Danish-American artist known for his landscape paintings of the American West.

In the 19th century, the Fredericksen name began appearing more frequently in records of Danish immigrants to the United States, particularly in the Midwest and Great Plains regions where many Danish settlers established farming communities.

Other historical figures with the surname include Jens Fredericksen (1888-1963), a Danish-American journalist and politician who served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of California, and Aage Fredericksen (1915-1965), a Danish cyclist who won the world championship in 1949 and competed in the Tour de France.

The name Fredericksen has also been associated with several place names in Denmark, such as the town of Fredericksen in the northern region of Jutland, which likely derived its name from an early inhabitant bearing the surname.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Fredericksen

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Fredericksen.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Fredericksen was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Fredericksen has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Fredericksen was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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