How common is the surname Niemi?

4,272 people in the United States had the surname Niemi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,272 Americans. It ranked 7,767th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Niemi?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Niemi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Niemi getting more or less common?

More common. 4,253 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,272 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Niemi

A Finnish surname, carried by 4,272 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex N500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Niemi is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

Finnish origin

Borrowed from Finnish Niemi.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,272 people named Niemi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,272 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,253.

#7,767

rank among US surnames

4,272

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,234)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,758	Woodland	4,280	72,137
#7,759	Noyola	4,279	72,154
#7,760	Chenault	4,278	72,171
#7,761	Harner	4,277	72,187
#7,762	Bedwell	4,276	72,204
#7,763	DiMarco	4,275	72,221
#7,765	Fortson	4,273	72,255

Who is named Niemi

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

95% of people named Niemi identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Niemi

Nine

Niemi has the Soundex code N500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N500.

Questions

Where does the surname Niemi come from?: Borrowed from Finnish Niemi.
How common is the surname Niemi?: 4,272 people in the United States had the surname Niemi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,272 Americans. It ranked 7,767th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Niemi?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Niemi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Niemi getting more or less common?: More common. 4,253 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,272 in 2010, up 0.4%.