Nicholson

Nicholson is the 592nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 55,506 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,385.

By the numbers

People: 55,506
Rank: 592nd
How common: 1 in 5,385
Per 100,000: 18.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.9%
Black, not Hispanic 18.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Nicholson

Jack Nicholson (born 1937)American actor and filmmaker
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)British painter
Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891–1963)American astronomer
Julianne Nicholson (born 1971)American actress
Bill Nicholson (1919–2004)English footballer and manager
William Nicholson (1753–1815)British chemist
William Nicholson (1872–1949)British painter, engraver and illustrator
Reynold A. Nicholson (1868–1945)British orientalist

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

Surnames like Nicholson

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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.