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The NIGHTENGALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 731 30229 0 3
United States (1880 census) 233 17257 0 5
Change since 1880 +498 -12972 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NIGHTENGALE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 80 3529 0.003 30
Oklahoma 76 4845 0.002 22
California 75 25441 0.000 2
New York 63 24678 0.000 3
Florida 50 26968 0.000 3
Top States for NIGHTENGALE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 80 3529 0.003 30
Oklahoma 76 4845 0.002 22
West Virginia 11 10083 0.001 6
Maryland 31 14445 0.001 6
Oregon 20 17908 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of NIGHTENGALE

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

Ethnic distribution of NIGHTENGALE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 628 85.91
Black/African American 71 9.71
Mixed Race 23 3.15
White (Hispanic) 6 0.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of NIGHTENGALE in historical publications

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

Similar names to NIGHTENGALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIGHTENGALE.

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 NIGHTENGALE

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