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The NICKELS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,590 6770 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,108 5022 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +3482 -1748 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 158 9366 0.001 10
United Kingdom 338 11764 0.001 7
Top States for NICKELS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 357 3620 0.003 29
Ohio 350 3982 0.003 31
Michigan 301 3987 0.003 30
Wisconsin 285 2515 0.005 53
California 248 10464 0.001 7
Top States for NICKELS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 95 2399 0.006 56
Wisconsin 285 2515 0.005 53
Oklahoma 153 3058 0.004 44
South Dakota 31 4209 0.004 41
Montana 35 3912 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of NICKELS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NICKELS 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 NICKELS 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 NICKELS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 180 3.92
White (Hispanic) 63 1.37
Mixed Race 52 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.52
Asian/Pacific 18 0.39
White (Caucasian) 4,253 92.66

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

Meaning of NICKELS in historical publications

NICKELS. See Nicholas.

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 NICKELS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICKELS.

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 NICKELS

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