The NATHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,369	4444	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	1,567	3691	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+5802	-753	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	729	2225	0.004	45
United Kingdom	1,567	3615	0.003	34

Top States for NATHAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	953	3122	0.003	28
New York	865	2054	0.005	46
Florida	612	3209	0.004	38
Illinois	537	2282	0.004	43
Texas	350	5496	0.002	17
Top States for NATHAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	53	1763	0.008	83
Nebraska	125	1568	0.007	73
Massachusetts	317	2660	0.005	50
New York	865	2054	0.005	46
Washington DC	25	2269	0.004	44

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

Classification and Origin of NATHAN

Region of origin: Asia

Ethnic distribution of NATHAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	489	6.64
Mixed Race	196	2.66
White (Hispanic)	120	1.63
Native American/Alaskan	71	0.96
White (Caucasian)	4,506	61.15
Black/African American	1,987	26.96

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

Similar names to NATHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NATHAN.

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.