The NICKENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,876	10270	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	533	9178	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+2343	-1092	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	2	34840	0	0

Top States for NICKENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	296	2203	0.007	66
Virginia	266	3435	0.004	38
Maryland	261	2526	0.005	49
Tennessee	193	3969	0.003	34
California	178	14765	0.001	5
Top States for NICKENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	74	935	0.013	129
Louisiana	296	2203	0.007	66
Maryland	261	2526	0.005	49
Virginia	266	3435	0.004	38
Tennessee	193	3969	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of NICKENS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NICKENS 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.

Ethnic distribution of NICKENS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	107	3.72
White (Hispanic)	37	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.66
Asian/Pacific	7	0.24
Black/African American	1,408	48.96
White (Caucasian)	1,298	45.13

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

Similar names to NICKENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICKENS.

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.