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The NICOLAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,783 5525 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 387 11799 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +5396 +6274 +0.001 +13
Other Countries
Australia 312 5020 0.002 19
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NICOLAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,491 2396 0.004 44
Florida 915 2545 0.006 57
New York 567 3862 0.003 30
Massachusetts 247 3945 0.004 39
New Jersey 247 4434 0.003 29
Top States for NICOLAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 120 914 0.010 99
Nevada 116 2302 0.006 58
Florida 915 2545 0.006 57
California 1,491 2396 0.004 44
Alaska 25 4285 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of NICOLAS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NICOLAS 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.

Ethnic distribution of NICOLAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 270 4.67
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.66
Asian/Pacific 1,241 21.46
Black/African American 1,355 23.43
White (Caucasian) 1,369 23.67
White (Hispanic) 1,510 26.11

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

Meaning of NICOLAS in historical publications

NICOLAS. The late Sir Plarris Nicolas, the well-known antiquary and historian, descended from a Breton family who flourished in the XIII. and XIV. cent., one of whose members came into England at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled at Looe in Cornwall.

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 NICOLAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICOLAS.

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 NICOLAS

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