The NATION surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,880	4710	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	678	7563	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+6202	+2853	+0.002	+12
Other Countries
Australia	436	3634	0.003	27
United Kingdom	735	6668	0.002	16

Top States for NATION by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	658	1681	0.008	80
Texas	613	3820	0.003	29
Illinois	479	2851	0.004	39
California	434	6696	0.001	13
Kentucky	366	1638	0.009	91
Top States for NATION by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	63	948	0.013	128
Kentucky	366	1638	0.009	91
Oklahoma	310	1605	0.009	90
Georgia	658	1681	0.008	80
Alabama	240	2749	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of NATION

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	788	11.45
Mixed Race	139	2.02
Native American/Alaskan	134	1.95
White (Hispanic)	133	1.93
Asian/Pacific	44	0.64
White (Caucasian)	5,642	82.01

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

Similar names to NATION

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NATION.

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.