Last Name NICKERSON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of Nicholas, a corruption of Nocholson.
Origin English, Polish, Irish

Rank 2,162 (2000 US census) 1,837 (1990 US census)
Count 15,409 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 78.6%, or 12111 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 17.29%, or 2664 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.42%, or 65 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.66%, or 102 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.39%, or 214 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.65%, or 254 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...


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