Niemi

Niemi is the 8,018th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,964 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 75,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,964
Rank: 8,018th
How common: 1 in 75,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Finnish

Borrowed from Finnish Niemi.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Niemi

Antti Niemi (born 1972)Finnish association football player and coach
Lisa Niemi (born 1956)American actress
Mikael Niemi (born 1959)Swedish author
Antti Niemi (born 1983)Finnish ice hockey goaltender
Antti-Jussi Niemi (born 1977)Finnish ice hockey player
Pekka Niemi (1909–1993)cross-country skier
Matti Niemi (born 1937)Finnish rower
Jari Niemi (born 1977)footballer

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

Surnames like Niemi

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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.