Nickels

4,372 people in the United States were counted with the surname Nickels in the 2020 census, making it the 7,353rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 68,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,372
Rank: 7,353rd
How common: 1 in 68,400
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

One of the variant spellings of Nichols, from Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Nickels

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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.