Last Name PEDERSEN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, Greenlandic, Falkland, Belgian, South african

Rank	1,683 (2000 US census)	2,309 (1990 US census)

Count	19,510 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.65%, or 18661 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.25%, or 49 total occurrences, as black,
0.58%, or 113 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.65%, or 127 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.37%, or 267 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.5%, or 293 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest baby names

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Russian middle names

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