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The NISBET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,009 13812 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 528 9256 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1481 -4556 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 687 2344 0.004 42
United Kingdom 3,648 1715 0.008 79
Top States for NISBET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 235 10514 0.001 7
Texas 140 11492 0.001 7
New York 118 15225 0.001 6
North Carolina 110 6455 0.001 14
Washington 96 7277 0.002 16
Top States for NISBET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 51 2329 0.006 57
Maine 66 2958 0.005 52
New Hampshire 30 5244 0.002 24
Rhode Island 22 6693 0.002 21
Oregon 71 5865 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of NISBET

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 37 1.84
Mixed Race 30 1.49
Black/African American 15 0.75
White (Caucasian) 1,913 95.22
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of NISBET in historical publications

NISBET. NISBETT. Parishes, &c., in cos. Ilosburgh, Berwick, and Haddiugton. See Nesbitt.

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 NISBET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NISBET.

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 NISBET

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