The NATIONS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,478	8699	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	868	6130	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+2610	-2569	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	2	35490	0	0

Top States for NATIONS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	459	991	0.016	161
Texas	452	4749	0.002	22
North Carolina	313	3352	0.004	39
Missouri	299	2537	0.005	53
Georgia	296	3158	0.004	36
Top States for NATIONS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	459	991	0.016	161
Missouri	299	2537	0.005	53
Arkansas	106	3242	0.004	40
North Carolina	313	3352	0.004	39
Wyoming	19	3743	0.004	38

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

Classification and Origin of NATIONS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NATIONS 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.

Ethnic distribution of NATIONS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	51	1.47
Mixed Race	47	1.35
White (Hispanic)	45	1.29
Black/African American	27	0.78
Asian/Pacific	7	0.2
White (Caucasian)	3,301	94.91

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

Similar names to NATIONS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NATIONS.

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.