The NEILSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,297	5114	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	2,082	2875	0.004	42
Change since 1880	+4215	-2239	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	1,965	826	0.012	120
United Kingdom	4,148	1516	0.009	90

Top States for NEILSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	756	3940	0.002	22
Utah	710	367	0.032	318
Florida	328	5995	0.002	21
Pennsylvania	314	4843	0.003	26
New York	305	6349	0.002	16
Top States for NEILSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	710	367	0.032	318
Nevada	164	1424	0.008	82
Maine	98	2252	0.008	77
Idaho	95	1917	0.007	73
Wyoming	29	2213	0.006	59

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

Classification and Origin of NEILSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	122	1.94
Mixed Race	93	1.48
White (Hispanic)	77	1.22
Asian/Pacific	42	0.67
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.35
White (Caucasian)	5,941	94.35

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

Similar names to NEILSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEILSON.

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.