Nickel is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Nickel
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Nickel

How popular is Nickel?

Nickel is common in United States.

Nickel is ranked 13637 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Nickel bearers increased by 1.53055 per cent in 2010 US census to 8292 since 2000, the surname slipped by 300 spots and ranked at 4291. The last name was found in around 28 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.3 96.65
Hispanic or Latino 1.71 0.92
Others 1.34 1.16
Black 0.62 0.56
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.55 0.45
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.48 0.26
Nickel is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Germany which signifies that it is originated from Germany. Around 38693 people have been found who wears Nickel as their family name. Nickel is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
616,339 India10
5,340 Iceland6
7,031 China6
8,411 Costa Rica4
189 Samoa3
46,068 Philippines3
2,915 Paraguay3
108,034 Italy3
661,536 Indonesia3
26,321 Israel3
2,550 Haiti3
3,340 Jamaica3
20,541 Peru3
6,270 Hong Kong3
40,064 Nigeria2
9,272 Ecuador2
4,104 South Korea2
24,766 Scotland2
19,046 Ireland2
6,353 Panama2
6,462 Ivory Coast2
8,268 Mauritius1
846 American Samoa1
38,830 Morocco1
2,057 Myanmar1
10,190 Bahrain1
12,745 Luxembourg1
1,970 Grenada1
13,606 Senegal1
408 Åland1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
25,721 Egypt1
40,340 Malaysia1
30,360 Thailand1
165,773 Belarus1
16,228 Bulgaria1
8,828 Puerto Rico1
24,176 Qatar1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
1,433 Sierra Leone1
36,678 Singapore1
13,972 Sri Lanka1
17,236 Ghana1
25,746 Finland1
17,768 Pakistan1
10,958 Bangladesh1
10,683 Cyprus1
32,942 Uzbekistan1
7,292 Vietnam1
15,705 Cameroon1
19,533 Uruguay1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
20,318 United Arab Emirates46
33,012 Belgium45
50,912 Kazakhstan43
13,773 Denmark39
11,444 Portugal28
23,443 Norway26
51,398 Czech Republic20
173,579 Ukraine18
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
114,544 Russia97
38,452 Spain57
18,409 Sweden51
Countries with hundreds of Nickel:
12,741 Poland477
4,065 Austria288
38,971 France257
24,304 South Africa237
4,859 Chile207
6,960 Switzerland171
15,754 Australia169
21,011 Mexico157
31,049 England145
5,261 New Zealand144
40,399 Argentina119
23,419 Netherlands111
Countries with thousands of Nickel:
1,766 Canada2,887
6,104 Brazil2,290
Countries with ten thousands of Nickel:
266 Germany20,409
3,969 United States10,055
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

George Nickel was 45 years old when he migrated to USA during Irish famine on August 10, 1846. He lived in Great Britain where he worked as servant and took Ocean Queen from Liverpool.

Comments

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Nickel
Nickel is a family name, a diminutive of nick name of Alsace-Lorraine-and, short form of nikolaus (Nicolas), given name of Greek origin, derived from nike victory and Lao people.

Nickel Namesakes

  • Arno Nickel, Chess Player
  • Bernd Nickel, Soccer player
  • Franziska Nickel, Soccer player
  • Frieda Nickel, Politician
  • Gitta Nickel, Film director
  • Thorsten Nickel, Actor
  • Larry Nickel, Composer
  • Elbie Nickel, Football player
  • Harald Nickel, Soccer player
  • Heiko Nickel, Soccer player
  • Neele-Marie Nickel, from 2015 adventure and crime film Fünf Freunde 4, who portrayed the Anne.

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