Mortenson

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Mortensen, equivalent to Morten +‎ -son.

Proper noun

Mortenson (plural Mortensons)

1. A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
   • 2025 March 3, Nico Lang, ““Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy”, in Them‎:

     Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in February that the passport had been “approved,” Mortenson prayed that, for some reason, they had been spared the agonies others were suffering.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mortenson is the 7710^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4306 individuals. Mortenson is most common among White (94.24%) individuals.