The NATHANIEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,639	16208	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	206	18899	0	4
Change since 1880	+1433	+2691	+N/A	+2
Other Countries
Australia	55	23555	0	3
United Kingdom	148	19606	0	3

Top States for NATHANIEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	157	18040	0.000	5
South Carolina	147	4028	0.004	37
New York	146	15357	0.001	8
Tennessee	114	6144	0.002	20
Texas	106	16893	0.001	5
Top States for NATHANIEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	147	4028	0.004	37
Washington DC	19	3564	0.003	33
Alaska	18	6612	0.003	29
Mississippi	74	4507	0.003	26
Tennessee	114	6144	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of NATHANIEL

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of NATHANIEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	259	15.8
Asian/Pacific	91	5.55
Mixed Race	86	5.25
White (Hispanic)	64	3.9
Native American/Alaskan	61	3.72
Black/African American	1,078	65.77

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

Similar names to NATHANIEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NATHANIEL.

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.