The NESTOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,238	6037	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	590	8454	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+4648	+2417	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	227	6710	0.001	14
United Kingdom	412	10211	0.001	9

Top States for NESTOR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	623	2480	0.005	51
West Virginia	547	509	0.030	302
Ohio	452	3181	0.004	40
Florida	410	4984	0.003	26
Massachusetts	348	2593	0.005	55
Top States for NESTOR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	547	509	0.030	302
Massachusetts	348	2593	0.005	55
Pennsylvania	623	2480	0.005	51
Ohio	452	3181	0.004	40
Maryland	159	3794	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of NESTOR

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 NESTOR 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 NESTOR 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 NESTOR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	309	5.9
Black/African American	251	4.79
Mixed Race	61	1.16
Asian/Pacific	19	0.36
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.11
White (Caucasian)	4,592	87.67

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

Similar names to NESTOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NESTOR.

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.