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    The surname Nead

    An English nickname surname, carried by 664 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex N300

    Nead: #34,185 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Nead #34,185, 664 people Nead: #34,185 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Nead #34,185, 664 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nead is more common than 78.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English nede (“need, poverty, distress”), presumably used as a nickname for a poor or needy person.

    Nead is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 664 people named Nead in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 464,978 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 668.

    #34,185
    rank among US surnames
    664
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #32,460)

    Who is named Nead

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Nead identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Needs

    Surnames that sound like Nead

    Nead has the Soundex code N300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N300.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Nead come from?
    From Middle English nede (“need, poverty, distress”), presumably used as a nickname for a poor or needy person.
    How common is the surname Nead?
    664 people in the United States had the surname Nead in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 464,978 Americans. It ranked 34,185th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nead?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Nead identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Nead?
    Nead is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Nead getting more or less common?
    Less common. 668 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 664 in 2010, down 0.6%.
    What are other spellings of Nead?
    Needs.