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The NUNN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,792 2258 0.005 55
United States (1880 census) 3,037 2008 0.006 61
Change since 1880 +11755 -250 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 1,911 858 0.012 117
United Kingdom 7,263 850 0.016 158
Top States for NUNN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,645 1508 0.008 79
California 1,160 2708 0.003 34
Kentucky 770 770 0.019 191
North Carolina 762 1585 0.009 95
Georgia 714 1474 0.009 87
Top States for NUNN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 770 770 0.019 191
Alabama 663 1119 0.015 149
Oklahoma 437 1071 0.013 127
Vermont 76 1434 0.012 125
Missouri 570 1237 0.010 102

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

Classification and Origin of NUNN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 274 1.85
Mixed Race 271 1.83
Native American/Alaskan 107 0.72
Asian/Pacific 98 0.66
White (Caucasian) 10,456 70.69
Black/African American 3,587 24.25

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

Meaning of NUNN in historical publications

NUNN. An old A-Sax. personal name. One Nun was a kinsman of lua, king of the West Saxons — Nun, Ince in'opinciwus. See Hon. Hist. Brit. 326, &c., &c. Anno 710. " Ine and Nun, his kinsman, fought against Gerent, king of the AVelsh." Saxon Chronicle. But the surname may have originated from a lapse of a vowess, for we find in the H.R. not only one Alice la Nonne, but also " Robertus Alius ejus."

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 NUNN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NUNN.

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 NUNN

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