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The NOWLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,078 22304 0 4
United States (1880 census) 618 8144 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +460 -14160 +N/A -8
Other Countries
Australia 571 2844 0.003 35
United Kingdom 170 18093 0 4
Top States for NOWLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 268 4417 0.003 27
California 64 33724 0.000 2
Alabama 58 6769 0.001 13
Texas 52 25101 0.000 2
Florida 51 30056 0.000 3
Top States for NOWLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 37 3611 0.005 47
Idaho 39 4736 0.003 30
Michigan 268 4417 0.003 27
Alaska 15 6619 0.002 24
Maine 19 7534 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of NOWLAND

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 NOWLAND 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 NOWLAND 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 NOWLAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 16 1.48
White (Hispanic) 10 0.93
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.56
Asian/Pacific 5 0.46
Black/African American 5 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,036 96.1

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

Meaning of NOWLAND in historical publications

NOWLAND. A corruption of 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 NOWLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOWLAND.

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 NOWLAND

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