The NEILSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,492	17426	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	433	10837	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1059	-6589	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	923	1778	0.006	56
United Kingdom	61	25556	0	1

Top States for NEILSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	193	10635	0.001	6
Utah	138	1726	0.006	62
Washington	104	5643	0.002	18
Oregon	71	4911	0.002	21
Florida	60	21866	0.000	4
Top States for NEILSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	138	1726	0.006	62
Idaho	33	4491	0.003	26
Oregon	71	4911	0.002	21
Washington	104	5643	0.002	18
Nebraska	28	7656	0.002	16

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of NEILSEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NEILSEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of NEILSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	37	2.48
Mixed Race	29	1.94
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.87
Asian/Pacific	11	0.74
Black/African American	5	0.34
White (Caucasian)	1,397	93.63

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

NEILSEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to NEILSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEILSEN.

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.