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The NIELSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,410 3164 0.004 39
United States (1880 census) 1,139 4893 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +9271 +1729 +0.002 +16
Other Countries
Australia 262 5880 0.002 16
United Kingdom 203 16317 0 4
Top States for NIELSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 3,064 50 0.137 1,372
California 973 3204 0.003 29
Washington 507 1443 0.009 86
Idaho 447 322 0.035 345
Arizona 413 1494 0.008 80
Top States for NIELSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 3,064 50 0.137 1,372
Idaho 447 322 0.035 345
South Dakota 167 419 0.022 221
Wyoming 84 636 0.017 170
Nebraska 177 1100 0.010 103

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

Classification and Origin of NIELSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 180 1.73
Mixed Race 108 1.04
Black/African American 62 0.6
Asian/Pacific 52 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.43
White (Caucasian) 9,963 95.71

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

Meaning of NIELSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to NIELSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIELSON.

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 NIELSON

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