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The NYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,632 2821 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 4,647 1344 0.009 93
Change since 1880 +6985 -1477 -0.005 -50
Other Countries
Australia 506 3180 0.003 31
United Kingdom 2,479 2468 0.005 54
Top States for NYE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,213 1111 0.010 99
Ohio 1,202 1074 0.011 106
California 793 3675 0.002 23
Florida 695 2881 0.004 43
Michigan 637 1717 0.006 64
Top States for NYE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 96 1089 0.016 158
Utah 348 843 0.016 156
Maine 169 1426 0.013 133
Idaho 155 1085 0.012 120
Ohio 1,202 1074 0.011 106

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

Classification and Origin of NYE

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 NYE 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 NYE 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 NYE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 169 1.45
Mixed Race 129 1.11
Asian/Pacific 111 0.95
Black/African American 90 0.77
Native American/Alaskan 50 0.43
White (Caucasian) 11,085 95.3

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

Meaning of NYE in historical publications

The familiar abbreviation of Isaac, among the Dutch. Noie, Danish, exact, precise, nice. Ny, Danish, new, recently produced. Lower gives the name from Atten-Eye, at the island.

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


Similar names to NYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NYE.

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 NYE

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