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The NICKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,029 7608 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 621 8117 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +3408 +509 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 77 17933 0 5
United Kingdom 233 15015 0.001 5
Top States for NICKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 446 5484 0.002 21
California 361 8943 0.001 11
Tennessee 290 3201 0.005 51
Missouri 262 3465 0.005 47
North Carolina 217 4789 0.003 27
Top States for NICKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 157 2715 0.006 55
Tennessee 290 3201 0.005 51
Missouri 262 3465 0.005 47
Kansas 109 3738 0.004 41
Colorado 168 4008 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of NICKS

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 NICKS 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 NICKS 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 NICKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 75 1.86
White (Hispanic) 59 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.45
Asian/Pacific 10 0.25
White (Caucasian) 2,730 67.76
Black/African American 1,137 28.22

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

Meaning of NICKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to NICKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICKS.

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 NICKS

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