The NICOLAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,042	13628	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	214	18376	0	4
Change since 1880	+1828	+4748	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	119	12232	0.001	7
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NICOLAI by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	248	11000	0.001	7
Michigan	171	7745	0.002	17
Wisconsin	167	5151	0.003	31
Minnesota	152	4947	0.003	31
Pennsylvania	131	11969	0.001	11
Top States for NICOLAI by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	95	875	0.015	152
North Dakota	34	3437	0.005	53
South Dakota	32	4424	0.004	42
Wisconsin	167	5151	0.003	31
Minnesota	152	4947	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of NICOLAI

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NICOLAI surname.

Ethnic distribution of NICOLAI in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	128	6.27
White (Hispanic)	45	2.2
Mixed Race	38	1.86
White (Caucasian)	1,825	89.37
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

NICOLAI is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to NICOLAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICOLAI.

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.