The NILSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,462	8737	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	2,728	2224	0.005	55
Change since 1880	+734	-6513	-0.004	-42
Other Countries
Australia	94	14969	0.001	6
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NILSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	379	8850	0.001	11
Washington	286	3285	0.005	49
Utah	232	1650	0.010	104
Minnesota	201	4349	0.004	41
Illinois	162	10305	0.001	13
Top States for NILSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	93	1362	0.012	123
Utah	232	1650	0.010	104
North Dakota	61	2114	0.009	95
Montana	45	3765	0.005	50
Washington	286	3285	0.005	49

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of NILSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NILSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of NILSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	490	14.15
White (Hispanic)	50	1.44
Mixed Race	42	1.21
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.9
Asian/Pacific	24	0.69
White (Caucasian)	2,825	81.6

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

NILSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to NILSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NILSON.

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.