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The NICKELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,564 5714 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 794 6591 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +4770 +877 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 25 43959 0 2
United Kingdom 121 21971 0 3
Top States for NICKELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 784 1698 0.007 69
California 597 4711 0.002 18
Kentucky 458 1231 0.011 113
Texas 420 4872 0.002 20
Missouri 328 2208 0.006 59
Top States for NICKELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 458 1231 0.011 113
Oklahoma 283 1633 0.008 82
Ohio 784 1698 0.007 69
Missouri 328 2208 0.006 59
Iowa 166 2271 0.006 57

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

Classification and Origin of NICKELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NICKELL 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NICKELL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NICKELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 87 1.56
Mixed Race 67 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 57 1.02
Black/African American 22 0.4
Asian/Pacific 8 0.14
White (Caucasian) 5,323 95.67

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

Meaning of NICKELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to NICKELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICKELL.

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 NICKELL

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