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The NAKAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,128 21565 0 4
United States (1880 census) -1 115342 0 0
Change since 1880 +1129 +93777 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 1 386150 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32141 0 0
Top States for NAKAI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 386 10918 0.001 11
Hawaii 131 1303 0.011 108
New Mexico 108 2559 0.006 59
Arizona 79 11224 0.002 15
Utah 62 6115 0.003 28
Top States for NAKAI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 131 1303 0.011 108
New Mexico 108 2559 0.006 59
Utah 62 6115 0.003 28
Arizona 79 11224 0.002 15
California 386 10918 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NAKAI live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NAKAI represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NAKAI in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NAKAI by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NAKAI

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NAKAI surname.

Ethnic distribution of NAKAI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 513 45.48
Asian/Pacific 495 43.88
Mixed Race 51 4.52
White (Caucasian) 45 3.99
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NAKAI surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

NAKAI is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of NAKAI in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of NAKAI.

Similar names to NAKAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NAKAI.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NAKAI

The following words are slight variants of NAKAI that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.