The surname Nurse
A surname, carried by 2,786 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex N620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,786 people named Nurse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 110,820 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,501.
Who is named Nurse
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
69% of people named Nurse identified as Black (not Hispanic), 21% as white (not Hispanic) and 7.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 69%
- White (not Hispanic) 21%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.0%
- Two or more races 2.3%
Famous Nurses
1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Nick NurseAmerican basketball coach, born 1967
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Nurse
Nurse has the Soundex code N620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Nurse?
- 2,786 people in the United States had the surname Nurse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 110,820 Americans. It ranked 11,327th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Nurse?
- In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Nurse identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 21% as white (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Nurse?
- Nick Nurse, American basketball coach.
- Where is the surname Nurse most common?
- Wikidata records people named Nurse in the United States.
- Is the surname Nurse getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,501 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,786 in 2010, up 11%.