The NILES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,993	4102	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	3,667	1672	0.007	73
Change since 1880	+4326	-2430	-0.004	-43
Other Countries
Australia	28	39820	0	2
United Kingdom	318	12282	0.001	7

Top States for NILES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,046	1461	0.006	55
California	667	3791	0.002	20
Florida	535	3237	0.003	33
Massachusetts	385	1965	0.006	61
Texas	350	5016	0.002	17
Top States for NILES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	114	746	0.019	187
Maine	234	922	0.018	184
Montana	82	1127	0.009	91
New Hampshire	81	2035	0.007	66
Iowa	180	1697	0.006	62

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

Classification and Origin of NILES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	174	2.18
Mixed Race	98	1.23
Asian/Pacific	58	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.49
White (Caucasian)	6,499	81.31
Black/African American	1,125	14.07

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

Similar names to NILES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NILES.

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.