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The NICELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,635 6715 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 838 6309 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +3797 -406 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 33 27338 0 1
Top States for NICELY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 830 1150 0.012 117
Tennessee 660 1396 0.012 116
Ohio 553 2620 0.005 49
Pennsylvania 254 6264 0.002 21
Florida 221 8856 0.001 14
Top States for NICELY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 830 1150 0.012 117
Tennessee 660 1396 0.012 116
West Virginia 172 1561 0.010 95
Ohio 553 2620 0.005 49
Kentucky 181 2906 0.004 45

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of NICELY

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 NICELY 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 NICELY 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 NICELY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 303 6.54
Mixed Race 65 1.4
White (Hispanic) 60 1.29
Asian/Pacific 33 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.6
White (Caucasian) 4,146 89.45

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

Meaning of NICELY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of NICELY.

Similar names to NICELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICELY.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NICELY

The following words are slight variants of NICELY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.