Nelsion Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Nelsion Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Nelsion (98) may also be a first name.
Nelsion Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nelsion Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nelsion occurs most in Nigeria. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Nelsion? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 6,063,924th most frequently held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. The last name Nelsion occurs predominantly in Africa, where 50 percent of Nelsion live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nelsion is also the 956,749th most frequent forename throughout the world, borne by 98 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 5 people, or 1 in 35,428,552. In Nigeria Nelsion is most common in: Akwa Ibom, where 80 percent are found and Rivers, where 20 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 40 percent are found and Malaysia, where 10 percent are found.
Nelsion Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Nelsion has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Nelsion surname expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nelsion
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