The NESBITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,878	2584	0.005	48
United States (1880 census)	1,979	3005	0.004	40
Change since 1880	+10899	+421	+0.001	+8
Other Countries
Australia	741	2197	0.005	45
United Kingdom	3,483	1796	0.008	76

Top States for NESBITT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,181	567	0.029	294
New York	998	1934	0.005	53
Florida	826	2615	0.005	52
Georgia	785	1403	0.010	96
California	716	4286	0.002	21
Top States for NESBITT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,181	567	0.029	294
Georgia	785	1403	0.010	96
New Hampshire	108	1914	0.009	87
Tennessee	478	1873	0.008	84
Washington DC	46	1390	0.008	80

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

Classification and Origin of NESBITT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	180	1.4
White (Hispanic)	165	1.28
Asian/Pacific	53	0.41
Native American/Alaskan	33	0.26
White (Caucasian)	8,058	62.57
Black/African American	4,388	34.07

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

Similar names to NESBITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NESBITT.

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.