The NILSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,860	7951	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	414	11180	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+3446	+3229	0	+6
Other Countries
Australia	235	6520	0.001	14
United Kingdom	201	16452	0	4

Top States for NILSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	501	5341	0.001	15
New York	432	4229	0.002	23
Washington	355	1957	0.006	60
New Jersey	315	2869	0.004	37
Florida	259	7084	0.002	16
Top States for NILSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington	355	1957	0.006	60
Maine	64	2996	0.005	50
Alaska	26	3294	0.004	41
New Jersey	315	2869	0.004	37
North Dakota	21	5293	0.003	33

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

Classification and Origin of NILSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NILSEN 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 NILSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	78	2.02
Mixed Race	36	0.93
Asian/Pacific	24	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.26
Black/African American	6	0.16
White (Caucasian)	3,706	96.01

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

Similar names to NILSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NILSEN.

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.