Nesbitt

At the 2020 census, 12,684 Americans bore the surname Nesbitt — 2,768th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,684
Rank: 2,768th
How common: 1 in 23,600
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English nosu (“nose”) + bita (“bit, fragment, morsel”) or byht (“bight, bend, angle”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nesbitt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 56.7%
Black, not Hispanic 34.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Nesbitt

James Nesbitt (born 1965)Northern Irish actor
Nina Nesbitt (born 1994)Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and musician
Christine Nesbitt (born 1985)Canadian speed skater
Cathleen Nesbitt (1888–1982)British actress
Máiréad Nesbitt (born 1979)Irish Celtic, Classical and World solo violinist
Stephanie Nesbitt (born 1985)American synchronized swimmer
Derren Nesbitt (born 1935)British actor

People named Nesbitt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Nesbitt

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.