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    The surname Nest

    A German place surname, carried by 350 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex N230

    Nest: #58,042 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Nest #58,042, 350 people Nest: #58,042 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Nest #58,042, 350 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nest is more common than 64.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Two possible origins: * Welsh metronymic surname, from a diminutive of the personal name Agnes. * Borrowed from German Nest (“nest”), probably a topographic surname.

    Nest is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 350 people named Nest in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 882,130 Americans. That is down 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 503.

    #58,042
    rank among US surnames
    350
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -30.4%
    change since 2000 (was #40,908)

    Who is named Nest

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

    79% of people named Nest identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial 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

    • Nist

    Nest has the Soundex code N230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N230.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Nest come from?
    Two possible origins: * Welsh metronymic surname, from a diminutive of the personal name Agnes. * Borrowed from German Nest (“nest”), probably a topographic surname.
    How common is the surname Nest?
    350 people in the United States had the surname Nest in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 882,130 Americans. It ranked 58,042nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nest?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Nest identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Nest?
    Nest is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Nest getting more or less common?
    Less common. 503 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 350 in 2010, down 30%.
    What are other spellings of Nest?
    Nist.