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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

'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.

Meaning of NILSEN in historical publications

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

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.

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

Potential typos for NILSEN

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