Last Name CLAUSSEN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of Klaus, i.e. Nikolas. German Klaus, Dutch Klasse. The name was very rare in England, where Cole and Colin ruled supreme as the nicknames of Nicholas.
Origin English, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Irish, South african, Hungarian

Rank 8,757 (2000 US census) 8,757 (1990 US census)
Count 3,456 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.98%, or 3317 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0.14%, or 5 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.61%, or 21 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.32%, or 11 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.22%, or 42 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.74%, or 60 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Russian middle names

As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...


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