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The NIEMI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,253 7234 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) -1 116355 0 0
Change since 1880 +4254 +109121 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 31 37099 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NIEMI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 957 1020 0.010 96
Minnesota 547 868 0.011 111
Washington 343 1981 0.006 58
California 287 8646 0.001 8
Wisconsin 266 2488 0.005 50
Top States for NIEMI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 547 868 0.011 111
Michigan 957 1020 0.010 96
Alaska 53 1416 0.008 85
Montana 56 2030 0.006 62
Washington 343 1981 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of NIEMI

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Finland

Language of origin: Finnish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 50 1.18
Mixed Race 41 0.96
Native American/Alaskan 35 0.82
Asian/Pacific 17 0.4
Black/African American 11 0.26
White (Caucasian) 4,099 96.38

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

Meaning of NIEMI in historical publications

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

Similar names to NIEMI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIEMI.

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 NIEMI

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