How common is the surname Nobile?

1,370 people in the United States had the surname Nobile in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. It ranked 19,671st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Nobile?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Nobile identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Nobile getting more or less common?

More common. 1,341 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,370 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Nobile

An Italian surname, carried by 1,370 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex N140

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nobile is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Nobile.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,370 people named Nobile in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,341.

#19,671

rank among US surnames

1,370

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #18,857)

Who is named Nobile

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

94% of people named Nobile identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, 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

Surnames that sound like Nobile

Noble

Nobile has the Soundex code N140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N140.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Nobile come from?: Borrowed from Italian Nobile.
How common is the surname Nobile?: 1,370 people in the United States had the surname Nobile in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. It ranked 19,671st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Nobile?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Nobile identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Nobile getting more or less common?: More common. 1,341 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,370 in 2010, up 2.2%.