The NICHOLSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	55,986	534	0.021	208
United States (1880 census)	10,517	565	0.021	210
Change since 1880	+45469	+31	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	5,598	248	0.034	342
United Kingdom	27,404	187	0.06	597

Top States for NICHOLSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,907	824	0.012	115
Texas	3,423	760	0.016	164
Florida	3,244	598	0.020	203
North Carolina	2,933	372	0.036	364
Pennsylvania	2,692	429	0.022	219
Top States for NICHOLSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,204	346	0.042	423
West Virginia	727	356	0.040	402
South Carolina	1,526	408	0.038	380
North Carolina	2,933	372	0.036	364
Alabama	1,492	490	0.034	335

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

Classification and Origin of NICHOLSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	913	1.63
White (Hispanic)	907	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	336	0.6
Asian/Pacific	230	0.41
White (Caucasian)	43,109	77
Black/African American	10,492	18.74

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

Similar names to NICHOLSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICHOLSON.

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.