How common is the surname Nickel?

8,292 people in the United States had the surname Nickel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,234 Americans. It ranked 4,291st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Nickel?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Nickel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Nickel getting more or less common?

More common. 8,167 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,292 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Nickel

An English patronymic surname, carried by 8,292 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex N240

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nickel is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.

Nickel is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

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 8,292 people named Nickel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,234 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,167.

#4,291

rank among US surnames

8,292

people in 2010

2.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,991)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,285	Cato	8,298	37,207
#4,287	Partin	8,296	37,216
#4,289	Galan	8,293	37,230
#4,291	Nickel	8,292	37,234
#4,292	Pinkston	8,291	37,239

Who is named Nickel

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

95% of people named Nickel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Nickel

Nickel has the Soundex code N240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N240.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Nickel come from?: One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.
How common is the surname Nickel?: 8,292 people in the United States had the surname Nickel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,234 Americans. It ranked 4,291st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Nickel?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Nickel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Nickel?: Nickel is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Nickel getting more or less common?: More common. 8,167 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,292 in 2010, up 1.5%.