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The NOLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 44,421 705 0.016 165
United States (1880 census) 14,057 414 0.028 281
Change since 1880 +30364 -291 -0.012 -116
Other Countries
Australia 4,964 284 0.03 304
United Kingdom 11,484 522 0.025 250
Top States for NOLAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 4,244 357 0.022 224
California 3,327 965 0.010 98
Florida 2,935 668 0.018 184
Illinois 2,744 401 0.022 221
Pennsylvania 2,330 516 0.019 190
Top States for NOLAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 251 318 0.041 412
Massachusetts 2,143 351 0.034 338
Connecticut 978 323 0.029 287
Louisiana 1,182 537 0.026 264
Rhode Island 277 462 0.026 264

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

Classification and Origin of NOLAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 897 2.02
Mixed Race 546 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 231 0.52
Asian/Pacific 182 0.41
White (Caucasian) 39,348 88.58
Black/African American 3,216 7.24

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

Meaning of NOLAN in historical publications

NOLAN. See O 'Nolan.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NOLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOLAN.

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 NOLAN

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