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The NOTTINGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,082 7518 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 842 6280 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +3240 -1238 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 65 20650 0 4
United Kingdom 822 6131 0.002 18
Top States for NOTTINGHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 337 2717 0.005 48
Ohio 280 5129 0.002 25
California 274 9863 0.001 8
West Virginia 268 1045 0.015 148
Florida 254 7792 0.002 16
Top States for NOTTINGHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 268 1045 0.015 148
Montana 51 2514 0.006 57
Virginia 337 2717 0.005 48
Oklahoma 154 3130 0.004 45
Colorado 130 4392 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of NOTTINGHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 490 12
Mixed Race 59 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 53 1.3
White (Hispanic) 40 0.98
Asian/Pacific 16 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,424 83.88

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

Meaning of NOTTINGHAM in historical publications

NOTTINGHAM. The chief town of the

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


(origin: Local) From the borough town of Nottingham, in England. Bailey says the name is corrupted from Snottingham, from the Saxon Snottenga, caves, and ham, a village, from the many caves and places of security found in that county.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to NOTTINGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOTTINGHAM.

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 NOTTINGHAM

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