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The NAIRN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 964 24350 0 4
United States (1880 census) 122 27542 0 2
Change since 1880 +842 +3192 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 594 2723 0.004 36
United Kingdom 1,534 3680 0.003 33
Top States for NAIRN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 140 12299 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 105 13344 0.001 9
California 102 21801 0.000 3
Texas 85 16891 0.000 4
Ohio 49 23985 0.000 4
Top States for NAIRN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 40 7877 0.001 15
Florida 140 12299 0.001 9
Arizona 44 11724 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 105 13344 0.001 9
Maryland 42 12344 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of NAIRN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 768 79.67
Black/African American 165 17.12
White (Hispanic) 20 2.07
Mixed Race 9 0.93
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 NAIRN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NAIRN in historical publications

NAIRN. NAIRNE. A town in Scotland, capital of Nairnshire.

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 NAIRN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NAIRN.

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 NAIRN

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