The NIEMI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,253	7234	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	-1	116355	0	0
Change since 1880	+4254	+109121	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	31	37099	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NIEMI by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	957	1020	0.010	96
Minnesota	547	868	0.011	111
Washington	343	1981	0.006	58
California	287	8646	0.001	8
Wisconsin	266	2488	0.005	50
Top States for NIEMI by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	547	868	0.011	111
Michigan	957	1020	0.010	96
Alaska	53	1416	0.008	85
Montana	56	2030	0.006	62
Washington	343	1981	0.006	58

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

Classification and Origin of NIEMI

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Finland

Language of origin: Finnish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	50	1.18
Mixed Race	41	0.96
Native American/Alaskan	35	0.82
Asian/Pacific	17	0.4
Black/African American	11	0.26
White (Caucasian)	4,099	96.38

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

Similar names to NIEMI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIEMI.

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.