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The NICKEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,167 3991 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,237 4559 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +6930 +568 +0.001 +5
Other Countries
Australia 71 19209 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NICKEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 899 3395 0.003 27
Wisconsin 730 776 0.014 136
Pennsylvania 482 3205 0.004 39
Texas 419 5002 0.002 20
Michigan 390 3033 0.004 39
Top States for NICKEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 730 776 0.014 136
Kansas 328 884 0.012 122
Nebraska 204 903 0.012 119
South Dakota 58 1953 0.008 77
Oklahoma 259 1843 0.008 75

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

Classification and Origin of NICKEL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NICKEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NICKEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 95 1.16
White (Hispanic) 75 0.92
Black/African American 46 0.56
Asian/Pacific 37 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.26
White (Caucasian) 7,893 96.65

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

Meaning of NICKEL in historical publications

NICKEL. See NIchol.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NICKEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICKEL.

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 NICKEL

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