The NICE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,361	8945	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,002	5452	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+2359	-3493	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	95	14927	0.001	6
United Kingdom	1,149	4696	0.003	25

Top States for NICE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	500	3113	0.004	41
Ohio	300	4702	0.003	26
California	228	11384	0.001	7
Florida	197	9580	0.001	12
Indiana	197	4005	0.003	32
Top States for NICE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	196	1360	0.011	108
North Dakota	40	2778	0.006	62
Oregon	165	2670	0.005	48
Pennsylvania	500	3113	0.004	41
Nebraska	66	3860	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of NICE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	46	1.37
Mixed Race	40	1.19
Black/African American	38	1.13
Asian/Pacific	15	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.24
White (Caucasian)	3,214	95.63

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

Similar names to NICE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICE.

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.