Nicholls

At the 2020 census, 5,750 Americans bore the surname Nicholls — 5,801st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,750
Rank: 5,801st
How common: 1 in 52,000
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From a medieval vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.5%
Hispanic or Latino 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Nicholls

David Nicholls (born 1966)British writer
Geoff Nicholls (1948–2017)British guitarist and keyboardist
Morgan Nicholls (born 1971)British musician
Paul Nicholls (born 1979)British actor
Olivia Nicholls (born 1994)British tennis player
Laura Nicholls (born 1989)Spanish basketball player
Craig Nicholls (born 1977)Australian rock musician
Thomas Nicholls (1931–2021)English boxer

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

Surnames like Nicholls

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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.