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Mortenson Ranking

In the United States, the name Mortenson is the 6,899th most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. [1]


United States Mortenson migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Mortenson Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Charles Mortenson, aged 28, who landed in Ncw Orleans, La in 1820 [2]
  • Jacob Mortenson, who landed in Arkansas in 1874 [2]
  • Hans Peter Mortenson, who arrived in Iowa in 1887 [2]
Mortenson Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
  • Louis Mortenson, who arrived in Wisconsin in 1914 [2]

Contemporary Notables of the name Mortenson (post 1700) +

  • M. A. Mortenson Sr., American founder of Mortenson Company in 1954, now a major renewable energy construction company
  • Jack Mortenson, American founder of Mortenson Broadcasting who owns Christian radio stations throughout the Unites States
  • Ray Mortenson (b. 1944), American artist photographer, best known for black-and-white photographs of abandoned buildings in The Bronx taken in the early 1980s
  • Greg Mortenson (b. 1957), American humanitarian, professional speaker, writer, and former mountaineer
  • Jay Paul Mortenson (b. 1966), American former competitive swimmer and Olympic gold medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  • Norma Jean Mortenson (1926-1962), birth name of Marilyn Monroe, American Golden Globe winning actress, singer and model
  • Heidi Mortenson (b. 1975), Danish electronic composer, singer and producer
  • Christen Mortenson Olsen (1858-1938), American politician, Member of South Dakota State House of Representatives 20th District, 1905-08 [3]


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 7) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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