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The NIU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 776 28856 0 3
United States (1880 census) 1 111090 0 0
Change since 1880 +775 +82234 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 42 29227 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NIU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 268 8033 0.001 8
New York 65 22668 0.000 3
Texas 58 19686 0.000 3
New Jersey 47 16638 0.001 6
Utah 29 6381 0.001 13
Top States for NIU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 17 5430 0.001 14
Utah 29 6381 0.001 13
California 268 8033 0.001 8
Nevada 13 14145 0.001 7
New Jersey 47 16638 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of NIU

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

Ethnic distribution of NIU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 710 91.49
White (Caucasian) 35 4.51
Mixed Race 24 3.09
White (Hispanic) 6 0.77
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of NIU in historical publications

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

Similar names to NIU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIU.

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 NIU

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