Nielson

At the 2020 census, 11,615 Americans bore the surname Nielson — 3,026th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,700.

By the numbers

People: 11,615
Rank: 3,026th
How common: 1 in 25,700
Per 100,000: 3.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Nielson

Poul Nielson (born 1943)Danish politician

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

Surnames like Nielson

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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.