Last Name RASMUSSEN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese, Greenlandic, Austrian, Belgian, South african

Rank	893 (2000 US census)	971 (1990 US census)

Count	35,453 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

96.02%, or 34042 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.2%, or 71 total occurrences, as black,
0.67%, or 238 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.32%, or 113 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.18%, or 418 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.62%, or 574 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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