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The NILSSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,079 9680 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 85 35063 0 2
Change since 1880 +2994 +25383 +N/A +9
Other Countries
Australia 485 3314 0.003 30
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NILSSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 473 5702 0.001 14
Florida 222 8163 0.001 14
New York 189 9639 0.001 10
Texas 185 9224 0.001 9
Utah 163 1756 0.007 73
Top States for NILSSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 101 1699 0.008 78
Utah 163 1756 0.007 73
Alaska 38 2140 0.006 61
Connecticut 89 4923 0.003 26
Colorado 95 5558 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of NILSSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 62 2.01
Mixed Race 29 0.94
Asian/Pacific 22 0.71
Black/African American 14 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.39
White (Caucasian) 2,940 95.49

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

Meaning of NILSSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to NILSSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NILSSON.

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 NILSSON

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