The NIMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,707	15710	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	609	8232	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+1098	-7478	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	4	158510	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NIMS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	129	6448	0.002	20
Michigan	128	9954	0.001	13
Florida	126	14173	0.001	8
California	121	19750	0.000	4
Washington	119	6267	0.002	20
Top States for NIMS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	89	4945	0.003	30
Alaska	14	7292	0.002	22
North Dakota	14	8092	0.002	22
Massachusetts	129	6448	0.002	20
Washington	119	6267	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of NIMS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NIMS surname.

Ethnic distribution of NIMS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	187	10.95
White (Hispanic)	33	1.93
Mixed Race	25	1.46
Asian/Pacific	15	0.88
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.47
White (Caucasian)	1,439	84.3

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

NIMS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to NIMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIMS.

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.