The NOURSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,349	18781	0	5
United States (1880 census)	917	5873	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+432	-12908	+N/A	-13
Other Countries
Australia	119	12233	0.001	7
United Kingdom	204	16261	0	4

Top States for NOURSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	178	14240	0.001	5
New York	151	12963	0.001	8
Massachusetts	144	5879	0.002	23
Wisconsin	84	10670	0.002	16
Florida	83	20470	0.001	5
Top States for NOURSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	18	5197	0.003	30
Massachusetts	144	5879	0.002	23
Idaho	23	8214	0.002	18
Alaska	11	10118	0.002	18
New Hampshire	20	7944	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 NOURSE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOURSE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOURSE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOURSE by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOURSE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	37	2.74
Mixed Race	22	1.63
White (Hispanic)	17	1.26
Asian/Pacific	5	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.37
White (Caucasian)	1,263	93.62

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

Similar names to NOURSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOURSE.

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.