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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

'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.

Meaning of NATIONS in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NATIONS

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