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The MCNICHOLAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,917 14328 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 70 40211 0 1
Change since 1880 +1847 +25883 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 48 26154 0 3
United Kingdom 1,333 4135 0.003 29
Top States for MCNICHOLAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 308 4178 0.002 25
New York 213 8922 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 164 9079 0.001 13
Florida 157 11432 0.001 10
New Jersey 156 6210 0.002 19
Top States for MCNICHOLAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 308 4178 0.002 25
New Jersey 156 6210 0.002 19
Maryland 90 6310 0.002 17
Oregon 55 7765 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 164 9079 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of MCNICHOLAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 28 1.46
Mixed Race 16 0.83
Black/African American 14 0.73
White (Caucasian) 1,845 96.24
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 MCNICHOLAS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MCNICHOLAS in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCNICHOLAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCNICHOLAS.

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 MCNICHOLAS

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