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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

'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.

Meaning of NILES in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NILES

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