Nurse

At the 2020 census, 2,983 Americans bore the surname Nurse — 10,278th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 100,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,983
Rank: 10,278th
How common: 1 in 100,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 65.4%
White, not Hispanic 22.1%
Hispanic or Latino 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Nurse

Paul Nurse (born 1949)Nobel prize winning British biochemist
Nick Nurse (born 1967)American basketball coach
Sarah Nurse (born 1995)Canadian ice hockey player
Darnell Nurse (born 1995)Canadian ice hockey player
Rebecca Nurse (1621–1692)Convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
Kia Nurse (born 1996)Canadian basketball player

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

Surnames like Nurse

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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.