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The NAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,412 7005 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 37 57836 0 1
Change since 1880 +4375 +50831 +N/A +15
Other Countries
Australia 115 12587 0.001 7
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,597 2069 0.005 47
New York 404 4972 0.002 21
New Jersey 330 3013 0.004 39
Virginia 226 3855 0.003 32
Maryland 222 2840 0.004 42
Top States for NAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 60 1820 0.005 50
California 1,597 2069 0.005 47
Maryland 222 2840 0.004 42
New Jersey 330 3013 0.004 39
Washington 192 4026 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of NAM

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

Ethnic distribution of NAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 157 3.56
Mixed Race 83 1.88
Black/African American 47 1.07
Asian/Pacific 4,093 92.77
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of NAM in historical publications

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

Similar names to NAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NAM.

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 NAM

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