Clausén
surname · Latin script
Clausén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Originally a patronymic from Claus + -sen.
- DKDenmark1 in 479(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.4K
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 6.6Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- 1 in 479 (inferred from the name graph)
12,257 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Clausen in US United States, DK Denmark, DE Germany and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Originally a patronymic from Claus + -sen.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clausén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #39 | 12,257 | 1 in 479 | 12K | Clausen | 160 |
| US United States | — | 8,906 | 1 in 37K | 8.9K | Clausen | 376 |
| DE Germany | #944 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Clausen | 146 |
| NO Norway | #347 | 2,310 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.3K | Clausen | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Clausen | 75 |
| IS Iceland | #843 | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 1 | Clausen | 24 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #165 | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Clausen | 1 |
12,257 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clausén mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a patronymic from Claus + -sen. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Clausén have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Clausén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clausen.
- Where is Clausén most common?
- Clausén is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 479 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Clausén?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 12,257 people named Clausén, about 1 in 479 residents.
- How common is Clausén compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Clausén is the 39th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Clausén?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/claus%C3%A9nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Clausén” — the 39th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.