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The NICHOLLS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,344 5931 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,488 3863 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +3856 -2068 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 6,117 217 0.037 374
United Kingdom 24,509 212 0.053 534
Top States for NICHOLLS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 613 4582 0.002 18
Florida 368 5276 0.002 23
New York 307 6157 0.002 16
Michigan 293 3986 0.003 29
Pennsylvania 270 5519 0.002 22
Top States for NICHOLLS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 115 903 0.013 127
Wyoming 59 949 0.012 119
Utah 174 1692 0.008 78
Idaho 68 2647 0.005 53
Delaware 27 4965 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of NICHOLLS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 375 7.02
White (Hispanic) 171 3.2
Mixed Race 64 1.2
Asian/Pacific 27 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.47
White (Caucasian) 4,682 87.61

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

Meaning of NICHOLLS in historical publications

NICHOLLS. See Nicholas.

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 NICHOLLS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICHOLLS.

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 NICHOLLS

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