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The NIGHTINGALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,994 7686 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 663 7676 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +3331 -10 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 887 1849 0.005 54
United Kingdom 6,265 1004 0.014 136
Top States for NIGHTINGALE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 352 7563 0.001 10
New York 277 6872 0.001 15
Florida 242 7770 0.002 15
Kansas 215 1382 0.008 80
Maine 174 1393 0.014 136
Top States for NIGHTINGALE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 174 1393 0.014 136
Kansas 215 1382 0.008 80
Alaska 32 2764 0.005 51
Rhode Island 53 2966 0.005 51
Oklahoma 153 3007 0.004 44

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

Classification and Origin of NIGHTINGALE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 208 5.21
White (Hispanic) 82 2.05
Mixed Race 56 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.58
Asian/Pacific 20 0.5
White (Caucasian) 3,605 90.26

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

Meaning of NIGHTINGALE in historical publications

NIGHTINGALE. From the birddoubtless with reference to sweetness of song in the first bearer.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NIGHTINGALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIGHTINGALE.

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 NIGHTINGALE

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