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The NICKERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,409 2162 0.006 57
United States (1880 census) 5,305 1146 0.011 106
Change since 1880 +10104 -1016 -0.005 -49
Other Countries
Australia 64 20750 0 4
United Kingdom 449 9569 0.001 10
Top States for NICKERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,897 410 0.030 299
Texas 1,198 1998 0.006 57
Florida 1,114 1849 0.007 70
California 1,096 2852 0.003 32
Maine 939 220 0.074 737
Top States for NICKERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 939 220 0.074 737
New Hampshire 494 330 0.040 400
Massachusetts 1,897 410 0.030 299
Vermont 97 1108 0.016 159
Delaware 115 1202 0.015 147

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

Classification and Origin of NICKERSON

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 NICKERSON 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 NICKERSON 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 NICKERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 254 1.65
Mixed Race 214 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 102 0.66
Asian/Pacific 65 0.42
White (Caucasian) 12,111 78.6
Black/African American 2,664 17.29

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

Meaning of NICKERSON in historical publications

NICKERSON. A corruption of Nicholson. NICKINSON. The same as NIckissou.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NICKERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICKERSON.

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 NICKERSON

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