The NILSSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,079	9680	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	85	35063	0	2
Change since 1880	+2994	+25383	+N/A	+9
Other Countries
Australia	485	3314	0.003	30
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NILSSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	473	5702	0.001	14
Florida	222	8163	0.001	14
New York	189	9639	0.001	10
Texas	185	9224	0.001	9
Utah	163	1756	0.007	73
Top States for NILSSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	101	1699	0.008	78
Utah	163	1756	0.007	73
Alaska	38	2140	0.006	61
Connecticut	89	4923	0.003	26
Colorado	95	5558	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of NILSSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	62	2.01
Mixed Race	29	0.94
Asian/Pacific	22	0.71
Black/African American	14	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.39
White (Caucasian)	2,940	95.49

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

Similar names to NILSSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NILSSON.

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.