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The NEILS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 618 34630 0 2
United States (1880 census) 110 29458 0 2
Change since 1880 +508 -5172 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 2 234771 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32158 0 0
Top States for NEILS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 139 5150 0.003 26
New York 64 25041 0.000 3
Washington 64 9902 0.001 11
Minnesota 53 13021 0.001 11
California 43 43785 0.000 1
Top States for NEILS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 139 5150 0.003 26
Montana 18 6994 0.002 20
Washington 64 9902 0.001 11
Idaho 14 10734 0.001 11
Minnesota 53 13021 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of NEILS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NEILS surname.

Ethnic distribution of NEILS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 533 86.25
Black/African American 67 10.84
White (Hispanic) 10 1.62
Mixed Race 8 1.29
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

NEILS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of NEILS in historical publications

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

Similar names to NEILS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEILS.

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 NEILS

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