The NESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,058	3000	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	1,064	5181	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+9994	+2181	+0.002	+20
Other Countries
Australia	396	3998	0.002	24
United Kingdom	1,488	3782	0.003	32

Top States for NESS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	1,985	178	0.040	403
Washington	942	750	0.016	160
Pennsylvania	794	1907	0.006	65
California	782	3907	0.002	23
Wisconsin	729	799	0.014	136
Top States for NESS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	458	85	0.071	713
Minnesota	1,985	178	0.040	403
South Dakota	295	186	0.039	391
Washington	942	750	0.016	160
Montana	142	741	0.016	157

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

Classification and Origin of NESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	165	1.49
White (Hispanic)	146	1.32
Black/African American	145	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	67	0.61
Asian/Pacific	59	0.53
White (Caucasian)	10,475	94.73

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

Similar names to NESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NESS.

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.