The NISBET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,009	13812	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	528	9256	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+1481	-4556	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	687	2344	0.004	42
United Kingdom	3,648	1715	0.008	79

Top States for NISBET by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	235	10514	0.001	7
Texas	140	11492	0.001	7
New York	118	15225	0.001	6
North Carolina	110	6455	0.001	14
Washington	96	7277	0.002	16
Top States for NISBET by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	51	2329	0.006	57
Maine	66	2958	0.005	52
New Hampshire	30	5244	0.002	24
Rhode Island	22	6693	0.002	21
Oregon	71	5865	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of NISBET

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	37	1.84
Mixed Race	30	1.49
Black/African American	15	0.75
White (Caucasian)	1,913	95.22
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to NISBET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NISBET.

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.